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VIDEO: SHARPENING MUNETSUGU YANAGIBA
Hokuto Aizawa

Co-owner of Tosho Knife Arts: Ivan Gomez Fonseca is sharpening Munetsugu Yasuki High Carbon Yanagiba finishing with Hakka Natural stone.Please describe our channel
VIDEO: HITOHIRA AD MOVIE 2017
Billy Harper

Hitohira is a Japanese knife, tool, and lifestyle items supply store, curated by an experienced and passionate knife user who has worked extensively in Japan and North America. Hitohira’s mission is to be a source dedicated to sharing and educating knife enthusiasts on the proper use and maintenance of their knives and other bladed tools. Hitohira encourages the use of the contents on this site for personal and business purposes, from its pictures and videos, to maps and informative articles as long as Hitohira is properly cited as the information source... Please link our website "http://hitohira-japan.com/" and Instagram account @hitohirajapan...
SHOP: CUTLERY TSUBAYA
Hokuto Aizawa

The famous Kappabashi Dougu Street in Tokyo is world famous for restaurant supplies and food-related tools. The knife shop called Tsubaya is one of the smallest and oldest kitchen knife shops on this street. Tsubaya was a normal cutlery store when they began in 1952 until 1981 when the first owner returned from traveling the world. During his travels, he recognized how great the Japanese knife is, so he built Tsubaya as a specialized Japanese kitchen knife shop in Kappabashi. In recent years, Kappabashi street has become famous for Japanese knife shops, but at the time, Tsubaya was the only...