Rakuten finds

[GlassEye]

Not sure how trustworthy the picture is though. The handle looks round or D-shaped, but the description says it's hexagonal.

The description also claims it is fried.

[labor of love]

The description also claims it is fried.

deep fried inox steel. its a "heat treat" secret.

[chinacats]

deep fried inox steel. its a "heat treat" secret.

[ryann]

I have acquired some vocabulary in lurking around too many japanese knife shops, and am sharing some it here:

Brands:
正本総本店　- Masamoto Souhonten (Kyoto store)
築地正本 - Tsukiji Masamoto (Tokyo)
堺孝行 - Sakai Takayuki
忠房 - Tadafusa
酔心 - Suisin
重房 - Shigefusa
ミソノ - Misono
有次 - Aritsugu
築地有次 - Tsukiji Aritsugu (Tokyo)


Type of knife:
洋出刃 - western deba
牛刀 - gyuto
筋引 - sujihiki
ぺティー petty
柳刃 - yanagiba
薄刃 - usuba
鎌型薄刃 - kamagata usuba
出刃 - deba
切付　- kiritsuke

白 - white
青 - blue

包丁 - kitchen knife
刃物 - knife warez

Also there are of course varying levels of quality from each brand.
From Sakai Takayuki I've seen:
霞 Kasumitogi
本霞 Hongasumi
Tsukiji Aritsugu:
別打 Betsuuchi? Betsuda?
特製 Tokusei

Hopefully I've helped someone look around Rakuten or google for various doses of knife porn & there isn't already a list of these words... If the list generates interest I will add more but with this you can browse quite a few knives, eg.

copy pasting 堺孝行 柳刃 白 should bring up yanagiba from Sakai Takayuki with some kind of white steel (a "二" or "2" in the description will probably mean white#2)
If you're in english and you want to decrypt some of the description, click on the top right corner (i'm talking about Rakuten btw) and select 日本語 as the language


Ryan

[Chutotoro]

Thanks for the translations, it helps alot on rakuten I just made my first order there, so im a bit nervous right now ^^ I hope tenso is good lol.

I found a shop called subaru that had lots of Masamotos, and i think it may be the only shop that has the SW-series in stock.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/subaru/c/0000001167/
http://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/m...search&x=-1274

[chefcomesback]

Thanks a lot Ryan

[Chutotoro]

I just found out that it was 2 months waiting time for Masamoto Sw. It felt too good to be true that they had them in stock...

[JCHine]

Thanks Ryan for sharing your work, greatly appreciated.

This week ordered a couple of unbranded 180mm white steel usuba from Houcho and will post pictures when they arrive. Any preferences for here or "show us your latest knife" thread?