The Haiku Japanese knife was created in a small family-owned factory using high quality Japanese steel.  A complex alchemy was used to ensure its resistance to corrosion.

When it arrived on the European market in the mid-1990s, it was an immediate success.
This old-fashioned knife has been adopted by all those who seek to combine a pleasant grip and an easy-to-sharpen edge. Zen-like balance and harmony, a simply authentic japanese knife !

The Haiku Home series offers a light cutting experience and excellent grip, typical of Japanese knives. This knife was designed to meet the expectations of moderate cooks, while still offering a common cutting quality.

Because the handles are not cemented, they are not intended for heavy use in professional kitchens. The handles of Haiku Home knives are made of the first, untreated, raw wood layers, an important cost factor less.

Haiku Home is the first Japanese knife sold in Europe. The history from which it draws its roots is immemorial in two ways, on a Japanese scale for its manufacturing and on a European scale for its marketing.

Kurouchi is a registered trademark derived from the transliteration of two untranslatable Japanese kanji evoking a rustique unpolished aspect.
When the brand appeared about twenty years ago it was the first of its kind, since then even in Japan the Latin term has become emblematic.

The handle is made of hardened wood and stained black. The ferule in steel fixed with a metal pin. It is an extreme mono-artisanat, each reference is made only by one person in particular, who does not make the others. The knife is forged freely, that is to say, without a mold, then put under the hammer.

This is the primitive knife, as it was imagined in the past, redesigned and revisited with modern performing steels (1,2 % carbon).

In this Haiku range we have decided to highlight famous Blue Steel in a less rough and wild elaboration than Kurouchi series.

Highly carburized steel (1.2%), handle in a burnt chestnut with a right-handed shinogi type shape, and the personal hammering of the smith. It looks less fierce and more conventional, a bit shiny. 

The place of manufacture is Sakai, which is indicated by the "Artisans of Sakai" certification on the ferrule, an ancient label dating from 1761 granted by the Bakufu of Edo Tokugawa.

Note the beautiful harmony of the black forge with the natural bluish reflections of the so called blue steel (Aoko). The Japanese have a different understanding of colour, which gives them a definite advantage over us in terms of art.

It is a japanese entry-level rooted in Tosa, Kochi prefecture, like the eponymous hero from whom it borrows its name in memory of the imprint he left on this island. Haiku Ryoma knives are raw forged. By raw forged we mean knives that remain unpolished.

This range has natural crude handles, not cemented to be exchanged if necessary. Plastic ferrule and standardized blade thickness instead of freely forged and of variable thickness like Haiku Kurouchi.

Haiku Ryoma Sakamoto is a short range of the 3 classic Japanese knives, Nakiri, Santoku, Utility.

Japanese knife in damascus. As rare as it is beautiful, this is the motto of Haiku Damas Special Edition, in Iwashi-gumo pattern. Each piece is unique and is designed as a piece of jewelry, with a limited number of 50 models per year for each of the blades in the collection.

Haiku Damascus Special Edition is Haiku's top-of-the-range shimmering ornamental blade, in contrast to the long-established rustic Haiku Kurouchi, which popularised the raw forge blades internationally.

The Ryoma Rainbow range of kitchen knives features hammered blades in coloured damascus. The range is writing the history of Haiku International's new brand. A premium product where each material has been carefully chosen to offer this visual work of art, halfway between tradition and modernity.

The Japanese steel blades go along with a traditional octagonal handle made from rosewood. All presented in a box dedicated to each blade.

A fatal beauty with iridescent colours and a sharp edge that allow this range to capture even the sharpest of hearts.

The beauty of Damascus with Ryoma steak knives to enhance your tables and discover the pleasure of cutting with sharp Japanese steel blades for unparalleled taste pleasure.

With a D-shape handle to keep them from rolling off tables and dirtying tablecloths, the Ryoma collections offer versions in black ebony or soft-touch Italian olive wood.

Discover them in sets of four or six in their storage box!