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"Danjuro" at Nihonbashi Kiya is a thousand actors of Japanese kitchen knives.
Nihonbashi Kiya, a cutlery that celebrated its 230th anniversary in April this year. The flagship brand is "Danjuro" named after the Kabuki actor "Danjuro Ichikawa (the second generation Danjuro is said to be the first). The sharpness and quality worthy of its name (especially the sustainability of the sharpness) are made by skilled craftsmen from the steel of the selected material.
One of the Danjuro brand Japanese kitchen knives, Danjuro Nagiri Nishi-style, has been certified as a "Chuo-ku Recommended Souvenir (Central Tokyo Premium Selection)". When you actually hold it, it is surprisingly light and easy to hold, and when you look at it, you can hear a pleasant sound of chopping vegetables with crispy and tons. By the way, the west type is a Nagiri knit with horns used in Kansai, and the type without horns used in Kanto is called the east type.
※"Chuo-ku recommended souvenirs" including "Danjuro Nagiri Nishi-style" can be purchased at the EC site "Tokyo Mannaka ippindo".
Nihonbashi Kiya's "selling" is not just selling cutlery.
For this blog post, I visited Tomoo Abe, the head office manager of Nihonbashi Kiya, and interviewed him. The first thing I saw when I arrived at the shop was the kitchen knives displayed all over the wall. It seems that you may be wondering which kitchen knife is good, but it seems that you can give advice from the perspective of an expert after receiving your request and consultation. In addition, it is said that customers who purchase knives with the inscription "Kiya" are responsible for sharpening, replacing patterns, and repairing them. The long-lasting wooden knives of "Kiya", which can be used for a long time, begins with a long relationship between the customer and the shop after purchase.
※Nihonbashi Kiya's knives can also be purchased at KIYAWeb Shopping and Knife Kiya Yahoo store.
How about the knife of Nihonbashi Kiya as a gift for Father's Day (June 19 this year)?
Nihonbashi Kiya also handles Pepper mills, the origin of French automaker PEUGEOT (Peugeot) (Peugeot originally manufactures gears and pepper mills).
You can also see "Kiya" from the Edo period in Nihonbashi.
The picture scroll "Kidai Shoran (collected by the Berlin National Orient Museum)" depicting the main street from Imagawa Bridge in Edo to Nihonbashi around 1805 (Culture 2). A copy of "Kidai Shoran (supervised by the Edo Tokyo Museum)" is installed on the underground concourse wall of Tokyo Metro Mitsukoshimae Station. Nihonbashi Kiya, a cutlery, was founded in 1792 (Kansei 4), when the first Isuke Kato launched the store, so you can see Kiya at that time in Kidai Shoran.
There are 88 stores depicted in "Kidai Shoran". Among them, only Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store and Nihonbashi Kiya Main Store still hold norens in Nihonbashi today. Even if the cityscape of Nihonbashi changes, the name "Kiya" and the products contained therein and the customer's thoughts have not changed.
Hirodai Shoran Nihonbashi Guide (For "Kiya", click number 24 on the image of the picture scroll)