Premium Tetsujin Hamono Blue #2 Kasumi 270mm Gyuto Chef Knife - No Handle - High Carbon Japanese Kitchen Knife for Professional Chefs & Home Cooking - Perfect for Slicing, Dicing & Meat Cutting

Tetsujin Hamono is a brand bringing two highly skilled individuals together. Naohito Myojin as the sharpener, also the current sharpener behind the Konosuke Fujiyama FM line. And Toru Tamura as the smith. Together their products are typically quite 'showy' in terms of steel, most popular for their "Metal Flow", as well as provide the user with gorgeous well executed finishes thanks to Myojin-san.

For those that have been in the Japanese kitchen knife business for a while, there is something particular about pairing blue (aogami) steel #2 with the ethereal finish of kasumi. Here, the kasumi is on soft carbon steel meaning it will change, fade, and react over time to create patterns so beautiful you'll think they’re mirages. See what I did there? Ethereal, mirages, throwing in all the big words. That's because these knives are worth throwing in the big words.

Gyuto, translates to "cow sword" and at 270mm, it might as well be a cow sword! A gyuto of this size is fairly large and may be daunting; this is generally not considered an entry level size to Japanese cutlery.