Kisuke Manaka KOKUENN Sakimaru Sujihiki 300mm
 About Manaka Hamono - Kisuke Manaka is a relatively young, 5th generation, blacksmith from Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture, in 2025 he moved to Sanjo Tsubame, a hotspot for blacksmithing in Japan. He began making knives from scratch about 10 years ago, with nothing but a workshop full of equipment and no mentor. He is completely self-taught, yet he mastered techniques to forge-weld steels in house, even forge welding stainless steel which is no easy task.
This beautiful Damascus pattern is created and hand forged with Aogami #2 and soft carbon steel by holding multiple times by Manaka-san. He then forge-welds Aogami #1 in the middle for the core steel.
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 About Manaka Hamono - Kisuke Manaka is a relatively young, 5th generation, blacksmith from Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture, in 2025 he moved to Sanjo Tsubame, a hotspot for blacksmithing in Japan. He began making knives from scratch about 10 years ago, with nothing but a workshop full of equipment and no mentor. He is completely self-taught, yet he mastered techniques to forge-weld steels in house, even forge welding stainless steel which is no easy task.
This beautiful Damascus pattern is created and hand forged with Aogami #2 and soft carbon steel by holding multiple times by Manaka-san. He then forge-welds Aogami #1 in the middle for the core steel.
