Vintage Japanese Signed Chef's Hocho Sushi 4.75" Knife Laminated Samurai Steel Metalwork 43" x 72" x 24"

43" x 72" x 24" (Width x Height x Depth)

heavy Bizen pottery flower vase

This one is in a style known as Oribe chawan

5 "in diameter

Used traditionally in Chado tea ceremony

Vintage Japanese Signed Chef's Hocho Sushi 4.75" Knife Laminated Samurai Steel Metalwork 43" x 72" x 24"This is a fine professional grade Hocho () from sushi chef's knife from the mid to late 20th century. Made using the same methods used to create samurai swords. The blade was hand forged from a combination of hard high carbon white steel forge welded onto a piece of soft wrought iron. After forging and shaping it was set into a Magnolia wood handle. This Hocho with a heavy single sided blade used in the Japanese kitchen to prepare fish for sashimi,