Can anyone place this blade to a specific maker? I found it in a small mom and pop knife shop in Japan, and even got it honed by the old man on a wet stone. An incredible experience to say the least, but I’d live more info on it if someone has any!
The first kanjis read as 春吉作 haruyoshi-saku (production of haruyoshi)
The rest of the kanjis are quite bunched up and hard to read as to get an exact meaning.
Hope that is of any help.
Edit: wrapping reads as 別誂 本床向剃刀 betsuatsurae hondoko kamisori (special ordered hondoko razor)
I'm not quite sure what hondoko is, could be the company or type of razor. A quick search of hondoko (本床向) gave me alot of kamisori results.Thank you, that's super helpful!! I tried to do a quick google search and didn't find anything. I'm assuming Hondoko is the area maybe.
Indeed, it is. And that's only the looks - it shaves like.... nothing else I have or had in my hardware department.That's lovely.
I'll give it a shot if you can snap another picture of the characters