Trade In Takada no Hamono 180mm Santoku Aogami 2 Mizu Honyaki Ebony & Horn Octagonal

Trade in santoku in good condition with saya but without original packaging. This water quenched honyaki carbon steel blade has some surface imperfections from use but was used and cared for well in a professional setting. The blade has been polished to extenuate the hamon and has been sharpened. Despite not having the pretty purple original packaging, this is a great opportunity to own a coveted Takada no Hamono without having to enter a drawing or something annoying like that.

Original Listing:

This water quenched aogami honyaki series is handforged at Nakagawa Hamono (formerly Shiraki Hamono) by the super talented blacksmith Nakagawa-san and hand ground with a beautiful finish bringing out the more subtle aogami hamon line by Mitsuaki Takada at the Takada no Hamono workshop.

They have fine cutting feel with excellent edge life and edge formation, and represent an exciting new generation of Sakai craftsmen putting out top quality work. We are super excited to be working with Takada no Hamono. Shiraki Hamono water quenched honyaki is superb, tough, nice to sharpen and with great edge life.

Mitsuaki Takada has spent many years as a grinder in Sakai and specializes in double bevel hamaguri style convex grinding. He worked for Ashi Hamono for many years, and is very skilled at grinding thin double bevel knives with excellent cutting feel.

Takada no Hamono opened in 2018, in the old style of a small wood frame house converted to a workshop, there are dozens of atelier like this in Sakai but Mitsuaki’s is the first of it’s kind to be opened in many, many decades.