By combing the best in high tech steels with an elegant traditional cutlery style and old world sword making techniques, KASUMI knives continues Seki City Japan's tradition of fine cutlery with its exquisite line of Damascus-clad blades.

Combining strength, beauty and function, KASUMI has achieve harmony in kitchen cutlery, creating stunning collector's items as well as knives that surpass the highest of quality.

The KASUMI knives blades are crafted of special V-Gold No.10 (VG-10) high carbon stainless steel that has been developed specifically for knives.

The blades are hardened to a rockwell C59-60 and therefore maintain a sharper edge longer than other cutlery line. A fine Damascus stainless steel lies on both sides of the main VG-10 core, adding beauty and incredible beauty to the blades.

The intriguing Damascus pattern results from the repeated folding and forging of stainless steel into 32 multiple layers.

As with the fantastic creation of the symbolic Samurai Sword, each knife is carefully hand-finished throughout each step of the manufacturing process by the most skilled & experience craftsmen.

The beauty of the KASUMI Damascus pattern coupled with the strong laminated black wooden handles makes these knives not only look graceful, yet strong amid good for any style of cooking.