You would not believe the amount of Nakiri threads I've read. Admittedly, I didn't spend a week reading them and I have also started a which Nakiri should I buy thread, which has yielded many of the recommendations that I had read in the previous threads. I'm currently down to a shortlist of 10 that I'm trying to choose between, none of which were recommended, but all of which are in stock in one place or another and some of which may have been mentioned on previous Nakiri threads, but I'm not sure it's the same one.
Part of the difficulty I'm having is that I see a Nakiri made by Kato, for example and, because I know nothing, I don't know if it's the Mr. Kato that others have mentioned approvingly or another Mr. Kato that makes OK knives, but nothing great. It may be the same Mr. Kato, but the wrong Nakiri, because he makes some good ones and others that are just OK. I'm at the point now where I'm thinking I should just pick one at random and see what I think about it when I get it. That was the main appeal of the Shigefusa, because I have only seen good things said about his knives and everyone seems to like everything he does. I realise that is probably not the case universally, it's just the impression that I get from what I've read. When I compare that to TF who many people praise, there are also many that mention the awful F&F and speak disparagingly.