Our Commitment
A single knife.
The knife is made by many different people and goes through many processes before reaching the customer.
By conveying to our customers the faces and thoughts of the craftsmen involved in the production, as well as the story of how each knife is completed, we hope that our customers will develop an attachment to the knife and have an exciting experience every time they use it.
Seki City, Gifu Prefecture - A land of 700 years of tradition in knife making
Seki City is a city of cutlery with a tradition of over 700 years.
Seki City, which continues to thrive in the production of blades to this day, dates back to the Kamakura period when Motoshige, the founder of the sword-making industry, moved to Seki and began making swords. With high-quality clay for kilns, pine charcoal for furnaces, and the quality water of the Nagara River and Tsubo River, this land provided the ideal climate for swordsmiths, and before long, many swordsmiths flocked to the area.
During the Muromachi period, Seki flourished as a major sword-making area with over 300 swordsmiths, and the swords of Seki, which were said to be "unbreakable, unbendable, and sharp," spread their name throughout the country. During the Sengoku period, they were favored by warlords and are said to have demonstrated unparalleled sharpness.
As the demand for swords declined from the mid-Edo period onwards, this outstanding traditional skill was passed on to the modern cutlery industry, which produces kitchen knives and other cutting tools. Today, Seki City and its surrounding areas are a major production area, accounting for more than half of Japan's kitchen knife shipments, and are known as one of the world's leading knife production areas.
