Thread: Inoue Tosuke Razors - The Real McCoy

Hi all,

The kanji characters for Inoue are: 井上　These two characters are clearly seen as stamps in the steel of many of the original pictures shown. This may or may not be helpful as Japan has a tradition of apprentices taking on the master's name after death/retirement to carry on the tradition of the "school." I'm not familiar enough with Master Inoue's apprentice system so I cannot comment for sure that this is the case here, but I can say without much difficulty that Master Inoue's name is imprinted on several of those blades.

BTW, whoever said the second picture was an Iwasaki was correct. The paper wrapping has Iwasaki (岩崎）written clearly in Kanji.

John