Nakagawa Ginsan Usuba 180/210mm Mirror Polished with K&S Ebony HandleAfter the retirement of legendary master craftsman Kenichi Shiraki, Nakagawa san, as Shiraki san's disciple for almost 20 years, is heading the Shiraki Hamono (now as Nakagawa Hamono). In fact, many of Shiraki san's works including honyaki in the last 5 or more years were done by Nakagawa san. Nakagawa san is also forging knives for some top tier lines from Sakai retailers, namely Sakai Kikumori, Sakai Jikko, and some other brands. So K&S now is very

Steel type: White 1 Core with Iron Clad

Overall length: 266 mm

Blue 2 core offers ultimate sharpness

Edge Length: 320 mm

both the bladesmith and sharpener have to be highly regarded masters

R2 PM Core

6 cm height

many of Shiraki-san's works including honyaki in the last 5 or more years were done by Nakagawa-san

VG10 steel contains 15% chromium and 1% molybdenum

Kurosaki as one of the leading new generation blacksmith in Japan

The famous Imanishi Kitayama is now back Knives and Stones

3 mm Width of Spine at about 1cm From the Tip 0