Nakagawa White Steel Honyaki K-tip Yanagiba 270mm Mirror Polish Seisuke Hamono This is the goat hair

This is the goat hair version

and professional chefs requiring a stainless steel blade for slicing raw fish

requiring immediate drying and light oiling to prevent rust

The Hatsukokoro VG-5 Hayabusa Gyuto 240mm is a stainless clad Japanese chef's knife best fit for first-timers and students seeking an accessible entry point into Japanese cutlery

The stainless clad san-mai build simplifies care

Nakagawa White Steel Honyaki K-tip Yanagiba 270mm Mirror Polish Seisuke Hamono This is the goat hairThe Nakagawa White Steel (White 3) Honyaki is a more practical line of Honyaki knives. While we all LOVE everything to be as exotic as possbile: steel has to be White 1 or Blue 1, and has to be mizu honykai. Fact is, not only it is very difficult to forge and sharpen (hence expensive), it is also quite a bit more delicate compared to the White 3 Abura (oil) Honyaki. For Honyaki, it is naturally harder than the usual Kasumi counterpart. For example a