Artisan créatif, Go Yoshizawa fait rayonner l’entreprise familiale. Il est le chef de la forge de Nigara, l’une des forges les plus reconnues au Japon et mondialement, et célèbre pour le travail du damascus. Yoshizawa-san s’appuie sur des bases solides du travail de l’acier qu’il a développées au fil des années afin de découvrir et d’explorer de nouveaux procédés. La forge de Nigara et ses artisans-forgerons continuent de nous épater en nous offrant des couteaux aussi beaux que performants.
The iconic Anmon Damascus pattern from the Nigara Forge found on their high end knives is inspired by the beautiful Anmon Falls in Shirakami-Sanchi Natural Park located near the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture.
Shirakami-Sanchi has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 and is home to Japan's last virgin beech forest. It is on this site that we find the Anmon-no-Taki (Anmon Falls) trail which allows us to admire the three falls Ichi-no-Taki, Ni-no-Taki and San-no-Taki. The names of the falls translate respectively into first fall, second fall and third fall. Ichi-no-Taki is at the top.
Nigara Hamono's Aogami #2 Damascus series, like the Anmon Damascus series, is inspired by the three falls and the stream that connects them. The Damascus billets are folded to reveal patterns that represent waterfalls and streams in different states when the knives are finished.