What does a kanji actually tell?

[Seemore]

Why would two or three knives, from the same line of the same maker, have different kanji on the blades? What does it mean?

 

[esoo]

Many times the kanji will include the store name, so that could be one factor. The best example of this is a Takada sold by Tsubaya - the right side kanji will be the Tsubaya store kanji and the Takada marks are on the left side instead of the right.

 

[Mariner]

Some factories also do OEM with no factory labeling. Factory A makes the knife, but the blade is given a tonya's (or storefront's) kanji. Factory A has no mark on the final knife.

 

[Corradobrit1]

Some factories also do OEM with no factory labeling. Factory A makes the knife, but the blade is given a tonya's (or storefront's) kanji. Factory A has no mark on the final knife.

Like the Morihei Hisamoto, JCK, Sugi and Tsubaya marked TF's