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Let's keep this one on track guys.

This one is advertised on a foreign auction site as a razor hone. I wonder what it says on one of its sides. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Kees, it's very hard to read this! I just se a さ and a れ and then may be 株式会社 which should be the name of the company. Let my japanese friends give a look to this tomorrow. I'll let you know.

Thanks for your efforts thus far!

Ok, so the middle line is the nane of the company:
さゞれ銘砥株式会社 Sazare Meito Kabushiki Gaisha, which seems to be mate330, maybe you heard about them.
The outside lines should be the address and the telephone number.
We couldn't see any mark about the cave or the type of the stone.
Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by Arsenico

Ok, so the middle line is the nane of the company:
さゞれ銘砥株式会社 Sazare Meito Kabushiki Gaisha, which seems to be mate330, maybe you heard about them.
The outside lines should be the address and the telephone number.
We couldn't see any mark about the cave or the type of the stone.
Hope this helps!

The side stamp reminded me a lot of 330mate, but I did not do a search to confirm.

Originally Posted by mainaman

The side stamp reminded me a lot of 330mate, but I did not do a search to confirm.

The reading of these kanji 銘砥 might be "meito". I say maight because there are also other readings.
Another word can be read meito in spoken japanese: "mate"
So I am almost sure it is the same.

Not a razor but can anyone translate the blade stamp on my higonokami?

This one has been a little hard to understand.
Not for the reading, which was pretty easy, but for the meaning.
Anyway this is what it's written on your knife:
本割込 and the reading is honwarikomi.
本, hon - in this case means "real". So we have a "real warikomi" blade.
Here it eplained much better than I could, the meaning of it:

Japanese Kitchen Knife Terminology

Awesome, thanks. I assumed it was the type of steel. This one was advertised as white paper #2 layered steel. Maybe the Hon speaks to #2 purity vs #1... Etc.?