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Kagemitsu Enodake 可愛岳, AUS8 Damascus, Santoku (universal knife) 165 mm, Western handle
Kagemitsu Enodake Santoku
Double-sided sharpened and laminated (suminagashi) blade made of stainless AUS8 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 AUS8 steel is forged between multiple layers of softer steel for a beautiful damask 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: 165 mm
- Total length: 290 mm
- Weight: 166 grams
- Blade height: 46 mm
- Blade thickness: 1.95 mm
- Steel type: Core: Japanese AUS8 steel (stainless) with 2 layers of damascus steel (Suminagashi forged) consisting of 17 layers of steel.
- Hardness: 59 (Rockwell C)
- Handle: black-brown 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 Saigo's 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 camp and is open to the public as a historical museum. Every year on November 3, the Mountain Festival is held to retrace the route of Saigo's troops, in which many people participate, including people from Oita and Fukuoka prefectures.
