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Kagemitsu Enodake 可愛岳, Shirogami Damascus, Kiritsuke-Gyuto 210 mm (chef’s knife)
Kagemitsu Enodake Kiritsuke-Gyuto
Double-sided sharpened and laminated (Suminagashi) blade of non-stainless steel with a core of Japanese Shirogami 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 forge of Ishizuchi in Japan. The Shirogami steel is forged between two layers of softer damascus steel. 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: 210 mm
- Total length: xxx mm
- Weight: xxx grams
- Blade height: xx mm
- Blade thickness: x mm
- Steel type: Core: Japanese Shirogami steel (non-stainless) with 2 layers of steel (damascus forged) with beautiful Nashiji (mist) finish.
- Hardness: 62 (Rockwell C)
- Handle: Traditional Japanse octagonal handle with bufallo horn ferrule
- 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.
