Nakagawa Ginsan Chuka 170mm with Ironwood HandleNakagawa Ginsan Chuka 170mm with Ironwood Handle, Hatsukokoro brand, sharpened by Morihiro. After the retirement of legendary master craftsman Kenichi Shiraki, Nakagawa san, as Shiraki san's disciple for almost 20 years, is heading the Shiraki Hamono (now as Nakagawa Hamono). In fact, many of Shiraki san's works including honyaki in the last 5 or more years were done by Nakagawa san. Nakagawa san is also forging knives for some top tier lines from

supporting general purpose tasks including slicing meat

It is is essentially the same as the PRO line (colour is identical between the Chosera and PRO

166 mm  Blade Height at Heel

Blade length: 263 mm

some times too small

but also in household cooking from the 700s to present

240 mm 270 mm 300 mm 330 mm Weight 173 g 223 g 249 g 283 g Total Length 422 mm 452 mm 482 mm Tip to Heel Length 234 mm 260 mm 290 mm 321 mm Blade Height at Heel 33 mm 34

with great surface finish and genuine horn ferrule

Octagonal ebony handle with black horn ferrule and single white spacer

Katsushige Anryu is the forth generation blacksmith family in Echzien with history going back to 1870s

historic “Seki City traditional Japanese forging” has still been taken over and keeping to the skill and tradition by swordsmiths in Seki

7mm at the heel