Japanese Kitchen Knives

[Tiziano]

Hallo,

I want to buy a few Japanese kitchen knives and i would like a few suggestions. I only want to buy such knives once and i dont want 20+ knife-sets bla, i only want 3-5 importend knives to cover the most important jobs. I want to pay x00 (xhunderd), however if you say that i will only be satisfied paying x000 (xthousend) then feel free to change my budget (then however i must save mony for a while ^^).

 

thank you very much for your help

[Nobody]

Hi,

I just found an interesting web site, though I do not intend to recommend the shop.

 

Typical kitchen knives; http://itkitchenknife.com/Japanese.shtml

and more products; http://itkitchenknife.com/j_catalog/j_index.shtml

[Brian]

Ouch, those are quite some prices

Nice knives though. Have you contacted Darcy and asked about his supplier in Japan for these? : http://nihonto.ca/hocho/

Maybe Moriyama san can search for some info on the forge of Tsunahiro in Kamakura?

Of course anyone in Japan has seen the shops dedicated just to knives, with wall to wall kitchen knives of all types. I was stunned at the variety and pricerange.

Take a look at these too: http://japanesecutleries.com/ind.html and http://hocho.o-1.jp/

 

Brian

[Brian]

I like the look of this place, although I have no knowledge of them besides a little bit I saw on knife forums: http://www.watanabeblade.com/english/index.htm

Love the webpage, and the bar chart telling you how busy they are :D

 

Brian

[Nobody]

Maybe Moriyama san can search for some info on the forge of Tsunahiro in Kamakura?

Maybe this shop?

Masamune kogei bijutsu seisakusho (正宗工芸美術製作所)

Refer to the bottom of the foll0wing page.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=558&p=4126&hilit=yamamura#p4126

[TBKY]

For wonderful kitchen knives, from Kyoto:

http://www.aritsugu.com/

 

There's a review of this shop on the NYTimes

 

[Tiziano]

First of, thank you guys for those fast responses.

 

I think i basically only need a Deba bocho mainly for meat, at least one Usuba bocho mainly for tomatoes and other European vegetables and perhaps (if existing) something suitable for cutting German bread

i also would need some knife for cutting mozzarella I'm not sure if Usuba bocho will do. i think id need something with a bit more curve in it????

However I'm rely confused about the price range of those knives, id like a info link that explains the difference in quality and wot you pay for or some short explanation :D

 

BTW if I'm abusing this forum for the wrong questions then feel free to tell me and I'll go to an other forum.

 

regards

Tiziano

[Bungo]

I bought a set on e-bay a few years back from Japan.........cost about 90+

 

http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/SaleSe ... =3&frpp=50

 

milt

[Jacques D.]

Hi,

 

You have Dieter Schmidt who is a reputed trader in Germany, i bought him some knives made by Hideo Kitaoka.

 

http://www.fine-tools.com/messer.htm