Sakoda Hamono

About

Sakoda Hamono is a second-generation knife workshop in Susaki, Kochi, working within Japan's four-hundred-year Tosa blade tradition. Its gyuto is hand-forged around a core of Aogami Super — a high-carbon steel that takes a keen, long-lasting edge — clad in stainless steel, so the body resists rust while the cutting edge stays pure carbon. Each blade is finished by Tsuyoshi Sakoda, who spent more than twenty years mastering sharpening before he took up the forge, and carries a polished finish, an octagonal walnut handle, and a water buffalo horn ferrule.