Translation Results Requested Through Conyac Made Public

This kitchen knife made in Japan's Niigata Prefecture is both exceptionally keen at the blade and exceptionally easy to maintain. Used by both ordinary households and professional chefs, it's suitable for many needs. Backed by both tradition and continuous innovations, its fine quality is the very definition of "made in Japan" of which we invite for you to see for yourself.

Japan's Sanjou City in the Niigata prefecture is famous for the cutlery it produces. Many of its businesses make use of superior metalworking technologies, making that area one of the biggest strongholds when it comes to making world-class cutlery.

The origins of the metalware industry in the Sanjou area lie at the beginning of the Edo era when local farmers made Japanese nails on the side, a cottage industry that soon flourished and prospered.

Serving as the place where the Shinano River connects with its tributaries, the Sanjou area was at a key location on Niigata plains and enjoyed prosperous interchange and commerce with other areas at that time. The area was constantly introduced to new blacksmithing methods and technologies, which it used to manufacture sharp-edged tools such as knives and farm implements.

Those metal hardware were sold by peddlers all over the country since the Edo period, and it soon flourished as a manufacturing industry.
The traditional metalworking technology that has been cultivated on these soils for many years, combined with new technology that has been aggressively sought, today's Sanjou area is producing products of superior quality every day.