Decorative carving knife
Vegetable
In-hand Peeling
3D Model
A mukimono knife is a Japanese knife for decorative cuts and fine work, the Kanto counterpart to the kamagata usuba. Tojiro, the Tsubame knife maker, says that the decorative cuts, angled slicing and fine work the Kansai kamagata usuba does with its pointed tip go, in the Kanto style, to a separate knife, the mukimono saiku knife (むきもの細工包丁).
Compared with the kamagata usuba, Tojiro says, the mukimono has no rounding of the spine and is shaped like a diamond-cut triangle.
The mukimono knives we list are 180mm and in White 2 carbon steel. A Sakai knife maker's care advice for carbon steel: it rusts if left wet or with food on it, so wash it straight after use, dry it and oil it.