Awaseya
One knife at a time, configured by steel, profile and length — and performed by your scrolling. Steel numbers are quoted verbatim from Takefu's published grade data; profiles, prices and heat treatment are this house's fiction.
The mill decides
what an edge can be.
Three steels, one mill: Takefu Special Steel in Echizen. Their published grade data is quoted verbatim below. Everything priced or promised elsewhere on this page is the atelier's fiction.
Cut to length,
drawn to scale.
The blade on screen is the knife you configured — its silhouette, its profile and its length against the centimetre rule all follow your choice.
heel to tip
Proportions are exact; on-screen size scales to fit your window.
A hand needs
an honest wood.
Octagonal wa-handle, oiled. Hardness is quoted in Janka pounds — the force needed to embed a steel ball half its diameter into the wood.