The word santoku translates as “three virtues”, referring to the cutting of meat, fish and vegetables, or the following three types of cut: chopping, slicing and dicing. Highly versatile, the santoku is one of the types of knife we recommend as a first or main knife in the kitchen.
Ginsan is a steel very similar in composition to Shirogami 2. The addition of 14% chromium produces a stainless steel with low impurities. As a result, blades forged in Ginsan have a high hardness and cutting retention capacity that rivals most blades in traditional high-carbon steels. Ginsan's purity makes it a preferred steel for blacksmiths who work steel according to ancestral methods, and a pleasure to sharpen.
The Hitohira brand is a guarantee of excellence, ensuring that every knife sold under this name complies with rigorous quality standards.