Thread: Japanese Straights

These arrived today. I can't stop playing with them. Like miniature katana!

Originally Posted by ScratchUK

These arrived today. I can't stop playing with them. Like miniature katana!

Any idea what the Kanji translation is?

Originally Posted by Thug

Any idea what the Kanji translation is?

I've had a lot of help from Arsenico in the Kanji help thread and he's identified the one in the second picture. The group of four kanji at the top says something like "very special guarantee", and the isolated pair below say "tamahagane". The two kanji at the top of the man column of writing is "special quality" or something like that, followed by the four "copyright" kanji arranged in a square, and then the maker Yamato Shin or Yamato Gokoro.

We're still working on IDing the one in the first picture, but it also has the tamahagane kanji, this time at the very top in a group of four kanji. The last kanji in the maker's name looks like "maru" so it could be a Yahatamaru but we're still working it*.

*Arsenico is still working on it.

FEON, still need to clean up the blade, but she shaves very well!


Iwasaki and Ribbon Super G. Not the prettiest, but they shave very well!