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Yoshiaki Fujiwara - 菊竜 Kikuryu (Chrysanthemum dragon)These beautiful knives are made by Mr. Kiyoshi Kato, born 1944 in Tokyo. He began swordsmith training in 1964, at the age of 20, and is currently a licensed sword smith. He now uses his...

Hideriyama is a mine that produce more softer stones then other mines.It is very good stones for Kitchen knifes ! This one is Huge raw stone that is super nice for Honyakis and western kitchen knifes.Makes perfect haze to Kasumi knifes and very good...

Hideriyama is a mine that produce more softer stones then other mines.It is very good stones for Kitchen knifes ! This one is Huge raw stone that is super nice for Honyakis and western kitchen knifes.Makes perfect haze to Kasumi knifes and very good...

Hideriyama is a mine that produce more softer stones then other mines.It is very good stones for Kitchen knifes or for beginners in tool sharpening! This one is super smooth and feels a lot like Hakka, very good deal for such uniform and smooth stone !...

This Hakka is very beautiful and super clean, now where prices on Hakka gone up i try to find only the cleanest and Best Hakkas it is super clean almost like synthetic and make very good hazy finish and good contrast in the steel !One of my favored...

This Hakka is very beautiful and super clean, now where prices on Hakka gone up i try to find only the cleanest and Best Hakkas it is super clean almost like synthetic and make very good hazy finish and good contrast in the steel !One of my favored...

Mr. Tokifusa Iizuka and his two sons work diligently each day in their small workshop to produce their master pieces…Shigefusa knives. They take every care in each step of the process to ensure total perfection in every knife they make. They only...

Mr. Tokifusa Iizuka and his two sons work diligently each day in their small workshop to produce their master pieces…Shigefusa knives. They take every care in each step of the process to ensure total perfection in every knife they make. They only...

This Hideriyama i picked up my self in Japan  Normally Hideriyama is a mine that produce more softer stones then other mines. But not this as they come from very very Old stock ! This medium hard Hideriyamas is impossible to...

This Saeki stone i picked up my self in Japan !  The one very rare stone i decided to look for is this Saeki,  It is Natural stone approx. 1000 grit, very hard to find now in very good quality. Most of Saekis sold...

This Saeki stone i picked up my self in Japan !  The one very rare stone i decided to look for is this Saeki,  It is Natural stone approx. 1000 grit, very hard to find now in very good quality. Most of Saekis sold...

On Very very rare occasions i find Blue Aoto like that: Not to soft, very smooth and not to coarse. Usually i do not sell blue aotos as they tend to be to coarse and way to soft with a lot of inclusions ! This one i picked up...

Very weird stone, it is razor finisher from a mine Kouzaki. Kouzaki is very Famous for they Super hard Aotos.  And it actually feel somehow how hard Aoto, But of coarse more...

Very weird stone, it is razor finisher from a mine Kouzaki. Kouzaki is very Famous for they Super hard Aotos.  And it actually feel somehow how hard Aoto, But of coarse more...

Very weird stone, it is razor finisher from a mine Kouzaki. Kouzaki is very Famous for they Super hard Aotos.  And it actually feel somehow how hard Aoto, But of coarse more...

Very weird stone, it is razor finisher from a mine Kouzaki. Kouzaki is very Famous for they Super hard Aotos.  And it actually feel somehow how hard Aoto, But of coarse more...

You do not see Asaharayama stones very often, however they are very close to Nakayama mine !And this stones in old days was even sold as Nakayama by some bad vendors :D But not anymore, this stones is very hard to get now !And specially that beautiful...

Very unique Atagoyama Suita with a lot of rust colors and pure white !! I have seen them before but not so many ! So it is quite rare stone Very fast Suita, perfect for tools or Knives. Also very easy to use and its quite big ! Comes on wooden base ! No...

Extra hard and extra uniform Aoto !!! It took me loog time to find these !It is actually not Aoto but Akapin that is extra coarse, they are mined as finesher stones so quality is much better then reguler Aotos ! I will recommend this stone to every knife...

Small Razor sized Hakka for those who want make great Kasumi finish without spending a lot of money !Great for all Laminated knives and Honyakis Soft moddy stone so very easy to use ! Good Hakka is now very rare and big ones have recently come up a lot...