Yashima Nogu Kogyo Harvest knife 120mm・Stainless-clad Shirogami #3

So, what do you do? It would surprise you, the number of Japanese who would answer "I am a farmer".

Tradition and the lay of the land means smallholdings everywhere, and every March many, many salaried employees retire from full time office work and get serious about growing stuff. Small-scale commercial farming is incredibly common, easy to move into and easy to move out of. Non-commercial growing keeps a lot of people busy every day - gotta make use of the land. Of course there are big growers too. It's a deeply social, community-oriented lifestyle that helps make Japan, Japan.

Yashima Nogu Kogyo have been providing tools to this community far and wide for over 130 years. They know their market, and this is the compact harvest knife they have chosen to offer. We trust their judgement.