Takefu
Here you find knives from Takefu in Echizen, where there have been smiths for around 700 years and where the steelworks that makes VG10 is based. Many of the smiths share a workshop in Takefu Knife Village, which has 13 knife companies and over 40 craftspeople.
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Many knives from here are hollow ground, and many have tsuchime, the hammered surface with small dimples. Aogami Super with stainless cladding is common, and SG2 is widely used. Here you find the smiths Yu Kurosaki, Yoshimi Kato, Makoto Kurosaki and Takeshi Saji, and the workshops Takamura and Masutani.
