Vintage Japanese Signed Chef's Deba Hocho Sushi 6" Knife Laminated Samurai Steel Vase cracks or hairlines though there

cracks or hairlines though there are a few spot of enamel glaze missing

It has been well cared for over the past half century

there is an old saying in Japanese "There is nothing more satisfying than tea made with water from a rusty pot

This is an antique Japanese Taisho Era (c

Japanpicker and the Shogun's Gallery of Portland

Vintage Japanese Signed Chef's Deba Hocho Sushi 6" Knife Laminated Samurai Steel Vase cracks or hairlines though thereThis is a fine professional grade Deba Hocho sushi chef's knife from the mid to late 20th century. Made using the same methods used to create samurai swords. The blade was hand forged from a combination of hard high carbon white steel forge welded onto a piece of soft wrought iron. After forging and shaping it was set into a Magnolia wood handle. This Deba Hocho with a heavy single sided blade used in the Japanese kitchen to prepare fish for sashimi,