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Kagemitsu Enodake 可愛岳, VG-10 Damascus, Petty (office knife) 135 mm, Western handle
Kagemitsu Enodake Petty
Double-sided sharpened and laminated (suminagashi) blade of stainless VG-10 steel. The blade is extremely thin and manually sharpened and has no thickenings, which makes sharpening on Japanese water stones very easy.
These knives are made in the Ishizuchi forge in Japan. The VG-10 steel is forged between multiple layers of softer steel to get a beautiful damascus pattern. This outer layer is made of softer steel and ensures that the core steel is well protected against possible damage and oxidation.
You can order this knife with or without Kagemitsu engraving (or with your own name in Kanji characters).
- Blade length: 135 mm
- Total length: 245 mm
- Weight: 102 grams
- Blade height: 28 mm
- Blade thickness: 2.0 mm
- Steel type: Core: Japanese VG-10 steel (stainless) with 2 layers of damascus steel (Suminagashi forged) with beautiful hammered (Tsuchime) finish.
- Hardness: 60 (Rockwell C)
- Handle: blue pakka wood handle with riveted stainless steel bolster
- These knives are not dishwasher safe and very sensitive to hard and/or frozen products.
This knife takes its name from a famous mountain (Enodake 可愛岳) where the last Samurai resisted the government of Emperor Meiji in 1877. Mount Enodake is famous for the breakthrough of the Satsuma troops led by Saigo Takamori. At the foot of the mountain there still stands a house where the Saigo troops held their last strategic meeting after being defeated by the Imperial troops during the Satsuma Rebellion (1877). The house has been preserved as the ruins of Saigo Takamori's encampment and is open to the public as a historical museum. Every year on November 3, the Mountain Festival is held to retrace the path taken by Saigo's troops, in which many people participate, including people from Oita and Fukuoka prefectures.
