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- Spotlights the artists and famous shops that led the uniquely developed Japanese custom knife boom and elevated it to culture, and traces the history in detail with valuable testimonies from key people. go.

- <Prologue>
- Japanese custom knife masterpiece seen in photos
- Chapter 1 ~Custom Knife Chronicle~
- A look back at the era when custom knives appeared in Japan with valuable testimony.
- Chapter 2 ~ Ginza's cutlery shop, looking back on its footsteps from the Showa era to the Reiwa era ~
- We asked Takeshi Inoue of Ginza Kikuhide, one of Japan's leading cutlery shops, to look back on the footsteps of himself and his shop, and look back on Japan's cutlery culture itself. The core part of this book.
- Chapter 3 ~Conversation Takeshi Inoue x Yoshito Aida~
- Mr. Yoshito Aida and Mr. Takeshi Inoue, one of Japan's leading knife makers who started making knives at the very beginning, discuss [what is a custom knife] while looking back on the 70s and 80s.
- Chapter 4 ~Those who inherited the Tokyo Knife lineage~
- Since the early Showa era, there have been craftsmen in Tokyo who have been creating knives similar to custom knives. Looking back on their footsteps, we will spotlight Yasuhiro Fujimoto and his successor, Toshiaki Kayama, who created genuine custom knives in the late 1970s based on advice from Inoue.


Item Size/Weight : 21.2 x 15.1 x 1.1 cm / 298g

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634241

ISBN code

9784798634241

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