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 Forged by Shosui Takeda of Takeda Hamono, in Okayama Japan. This vintage Yanagiba was forged in 2008 in memory of an old friend of Takeda's from Germany. In 2015, we visited Takeda's workshop and stumbled upon this knife and 14 other  knives that were in pretty bad shape from years of sitting in the workshop uncared for. After asking for his permission, Takeda allowed us to re-finish this Yanagiba. We took it to the finest sharpener in all of Sakai. The Yanagiba, made of super blue steel by Takeda's expert hand, was so hard that it took the Sakai sharpener...

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Owner: Unknown Shop: Tosho Knife Arts Blacksmith/ Sharpener: Tsukasa Hinoura Name: White #2 Unryu-mon Kurouchi 240mm Gyuto

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