Kuwahara Kaji Kobo・Ippon original knife・125mm

Kitchen! Camp! Barbecue! Zombie apocalypse!  (we have many North American customers) 

There are places and moments when an original knife is what you need. Here. Use this.

We appreciate the attention to detail, method and tradition that Kuwahara san brings to his kitchen knives and we think you will too. Is this Kuwahara original a kitchen knife? It could be, and it could be so much more. A slicey kitchen knife masquerading as a utility knife performing just as an outdoor knife should. (In certain circumstances it could use a sheath. We don't offer one.) 

Ippon is used in martial arts to indicate the successful execution of a technique and an effective result with the win. It carries the sense of a single stroke - one-pass cutting is something we like - think of your next bout with chicken skins. Ippon ('一本') is also how you can count knives in the Japanese language: ippon, one knife. The One.