Sakai Denshō-kan 堺伝匠館
A knife passes through three workshops: the one that forges it, the one that sharpens it, the one that fits its handle.
The house of Sakai's traditional industries: knives, resist-dyed textiles and bleached cloth, incense sticks, kombu seaweed products. Sakai's forged knives began in the sixteenth century with the blades for cutting the leaves of the tobacco brought by the Portuguese, and the Tokugawa shogunate granted them the Sakai-kiwame mark. On 5 March 1982 the ministry designated them a traditional craft.
Osaka
Sakaihigashi, Sakai
