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2025 was a big year with Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide manufacturing lots of new knives, while supporting some of their mainstays. Here's the best sellers of 2025 moving into 2026!

Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide's kitchen knives are represented on the world stage with Chef Jun Arie at World King of Chef's Cooking Competition 2025

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Shipping kitchen knives from Japan to the United States comes with certain tariffs as of August 29th, 2025. Learn more about these rates and how they may impact your order.

The United Kingdom has strict import regulations for kitchen knives. Knives with a blade length over 8 inches (approximately 20cm) cannot be shipped directly to the UK. Please see the details here.

The way we display our logo on some of our knives is changing, in order to provide tools to our customers with confidence.

Our president discusses possibilities in the future, and how the team here has been able to make their own ideas, learn new skills, and freely grow themselves!

Our president Ryo Tanaka addresses the ever-changing landscape of collecting feedback in an era of cultural consumption and change

Our president reflects on a very busy 2024, and addresses the challenges of creating culture in the years ahead!

Nakagawa Satoshi opened up custom orders for his Reverse Clove/Sakachoji Mizu-honyaki knives for 2025, selling out within 24 hours!

Our president discusses cultural consumption and its relation to "local identity", and how we can all work together to preserve kitchen tool shopping streets

Our president reflects on completing a major project, which took three years from start to finish. This project helps us create tool culture in Osaka!