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The grind you describe is indicative of a kamisori. It is asymmetrical. It has a front and back side, or "omote/ura". As to the honing, I think the honing is done asymmetrically also, that is a...

Exactly. When was this razor made? It's a well know and highly collectable blade. No one seems to know, or as you said, the information is not digitized. I was in Japan last year and found a Hoshi...

Thank you. It's frustrating and difficult trying to find facts about straight razors, but especially difficult with kamisoris.

Here's my kamisori, a Henkotsu with the blade imprint translation done as best we could. My family background is Japanese, but between the idiomatic language phrasing and the worn characters, it's...