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Side view of the Kamo Hamono Shizuku petty knife with purple stabilized maple handle, pale maple bolster, and a narrow pointed VG10 Damascus blade with rounded tsuchime hammer marks across the upper surface.
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle
Kamo Hamono

Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle

Sale price$245.00

The petty knife is where precision is most visible. A narrow blade, a pointed tip, a form that asks the hand to work with control rather than force — the Shizuku petty from Kamo Hamono is built around those demands. The blade is VG10 stainless steel at the core, layered in Damascus and finished with the tsuchime hammer marks that define the series: rounded depressions distributed across the upper surface, referencing in texture the moment a water droplet holds its shape before falling. Kamo Hamono forges at Takefu Knife Village in Echizen City, where Katsuyasu Kamo — designated a traditional craftsman and the cooperative's founding chairman — spent decades refining Echizen's forging methods while keeping their historical foundation intact. Echizen's cutlery tradition stretches back over 700 years, and the quality of its water, long considered ideal for hardening steel, remains part of what defines the region's blades. The handle is purple stabilized maple with a pale maple bolster, the color drawn deep into the figured grain without concealing the wood's natural movement.
Side view of the Kamo Hamono Shizuku petty knife with purple stabilized maple handle, pale maple bolster, and a narrow pointed VG10 Damascus blade with rounded tsuchime hammer marks across the upper surface.
Kamo Hamono VG10 Tsuchime Damascus Shizuku Petty Knife Purple Handle Sale price$245.00

Meet the Artisan

Kamo Hamono

Kamo Hamono was established in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, in 1936, when Kamo Shintaro founded the studio as a kitchen knife forge within the Echizen Uchihamono tradition. His son Kamo Katsuyasu joined the forge in 1956, beginning with the technique of dual-bevel blade forging, and has led the studio as its second generation. In 1975, Katsuyasu co-developed a vegetable harvesting knife with a highland farmer in Nagano's Sugadaira plateau, producing a dual-bevel blade suited to the demands of harvesting leafy vegetables at scale. The knife spread to farming communities across Japan and became one of the pieces that established Echizen's reputation in agricultural blade-making. Katsuyasu has also been central to the institutional survival of the tradition. In 1973, as the forge-based industry faced declining demand and an aging workforce, he was among the craftsmen who formed the Takefu Forged Blade Industry Study Society. In 1991, he established the Takefu Knife Village Cooperative and served as its inaugural director, working to bring younger makers into the craft at a moment when continuity was genuinely at risk. In 2016, he received the Order of the Sacred Treasure for this body of work. He was certified as a Traditional Craft Artisan in 2008. The studio is now in its third generation under Kamo Shinsuke, born in 1981.