Gohumanosuke Yoshihiro Gin-San Yanagi, Mirror Finish
Designer: Gohumanosuke Yoshihiro
This Yoshihiro traditional Yanagi has a beautiful Mirror polished finish, elegant Japanese Rosewood octagon handle with a Water Buffalo horn bolster affixed and White Oak Saya cover. Its long slender blade and single-bevel make for cutting sushi, sashimi and rolls effortless. Gin-san, also known as Ginsanko is a high performing stainless steel. Yoshihiro master blade-smiths use traditional forging methods mixed with modern techniques and strengthening elements of Carbon, Chromium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon. The result is a knife that sharpens with ease and holds its edge. Extremely user friendly, Gin-San is a popular blade choice for single-bevel knives among all ranks of chefs.
- Material: Gin-San Stainless Steel
- Forging Construction: Kasumiyaki
- Size: 27cm/10.62 inch, 30cm/11.81 inch
- Bolster Material: Water Buffalo horn
- Rockwell Hardness Scale: HRC 60
- Knife Type: Yanagi
- Stainless: Yes
- Handle: Japanese, Rosewood Octagon, Hidden Tang
- Wood Saya Cover: Included
- Edge Angle: Japanese, Single-Bevel
- Origin: Yamawaki Manufacturing, Sakai, Japan