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Japanese Kitchen Knife Types And Styles

Japanese knives tend to be a lot more specialized for particular type of cutting compared to the western knives. Hence, much wider variety of knives and terms. This section describes and explains different types and styles of the kitchen knives.

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Thanks & Credits

Takeshi Aoki of Aframes Tokyo for help with Japanese terminology and providing photos.
Shinichi Watanabe for help with Japanese terminology, providing photos, and for his excellent knives too.
Akiko Moritaka of Moritaka Hamono Inc. for photos and excellent knives.
knifeforums.com members - C9, Watercrawl, Nathan B. - 'Bishamon' and the KF Kitchen Crew.
foodieforums.com/ members - Chris Lehrer, Spaceconvoy, DrNaka, Pascal.
Hiromitsu Nozaki - Author of the book Japanese Kitchen Knives.

Last updated - 11/08/09