Nigara Hamono has roots stretching back 350 years in northern Japan, where smiths at the workshop once served as noble swordsmiths. The company has continued to preserve that tradition through generations, and today makes some of the finest kitchen cutlery anywhere in Northern Japan under blacksmith Yoshizawa-san.
This tall bunka is built from SG2 powdered stainless steel hardened to 62-63 HRC, taking a genuinely fine, long-lasting edge. The extra blade height over a standard bunka gives this version real knuckle clearance and board presence, while keeping the compact length and reverse tanto tip that make the bunka format so versatile. The stainless cladding carries a tsuchime, or hammered, finish, and the wenge wood octagonal handle with buffalo horn ferrule completes a knife that is both beautiful and genuinely practical.
Care Instructions: SG2 is a stainless steel but is hard and somewhat chip-prone at this hardness level. Use wood or rubber cutting boards only. Avoid bones, frozen foods, and hard materials. Hand wash and dry after use. Strop regularly between sharpenings and use quality water stones for a full sharpening.
This tall bunka is built from SG2 powdered stainless steel hardened to 62-63 HRC, taking a genuinely fine, long-lasting edge. The extra blade height over a standard bunka gives this version real knuckle clearance and board presence, while keeping the compact length and reverse tanto tip that make the bunka format so versatile. The stainless cladding carries a tsuchime, or hammered, finish, and the wenge wood octagonal handle with buffalo horn ferrule completes a knife that is both beautiful and genuinely practical.
Care Instructions: SG2 is a stainless steel but is hard and somewhat chip-prone at this hardness level. Use wood or rubber cutting boards only. Avoid bones, frozen foods, and hard materials. Hand wash and dry after use. Strop regularly between sharpenings and use quality water stones for a full sharpening.
- Brand: Nigara
- Blacksmith: Yoshizawa San
- Location: Aomori Prefecture, Japan
- Construction: San Mai, Hammer Forged
- Edge Steel: SG2 Stainless Steel
- HRC: 62-63
- Cladding: Stainless Tsuchime
- Edge Grind: Even
- Handle: Wenge Octagonal
- Ferrule: Buffalo Horn
- Weight: 5.8 oz (164 g)
- Blade Length: 169 mm
- Total Length: 315 mm
- Spine Thickness at Base: 2 mm
- Blade Height: 52 mm
