Your new best friend in the home kitchen, the Bunka knife is your general purpose kitchen knife. Great for all your vegetables with a flat profile blade and the triangle-shaped tip allows you to locate the starting point of a cut which is very handy when cutting fish and meats. It has a shorter point than a Funayuki knife which allows it to be handled easily.
Blade length: 165mm
Weight: 190g
Material: Blade: Yasugi Steel / Handle: Magnolia wood
Producer: Otsuki Knives
Made in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Otsuki Knives
Takahashi City, North of Okayama City, in the beautiful countryside of Okayama prefecture is home to Otsuki Takeshi-san, sole craftsperson and owner of Otsuki knives, meticulously transforms blocks of solid metal into refined blades, forging, sharpening, and assembling each knife by hand. These pieces offer intuitive beauty, form, and functionality designed for purpose. Otsuki-san also specialises in making farming tools such as sickles & spears for Gobo (Japanese burdock), lotus root, peeling wild nuts, and pruning stone fruit trees in winter.
