These might be the coolest razors I've seen for sale...

[PWJ]

Attention! Razor with a lacquered box owned by a Japanese shogun in the 17th | eBay

Razor with a lacquered box owned by a Japanese shogun in the 17th century. This product is the oldest type of the razor in Japan. Japanese razors were designed to shave the hair of samurai warriors and monks, and they were as precious as swords.

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Of course, more of a piece of art than anything you'd have in your rotation... I wonder, though, how well they shave...

 

[aussie]

They would want to be cool at that price!!

 

[alex1921]

Steve56 has some orihi kamisoris, he should be able to answer that question. I guess they shave just fine.

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[Gamma]

orihi kamisoris used to pop up on fleabay fairly often about 7-8 yr ago. Don't remember any as nice as the set above though. I had one for a short while, didn't like it very much. Felt weird to shave with, was awkward. It might still be floating around here somewhere. Stuff like that gets lost easily. I prefer the offset of a later model Kamisori. That set above, seems like legit museum piece, like a national treasure sorta thing. Seems odd that it's for sale on a public auction site.

 

[PWJ]

orihi kamisoris used to pop up on fleabay fairly often about 7-8 yr ago. Don't remember any as nice as the set above though. I had one for a short while, didn't like it very much. Felt weird to shave with, was awkward. It might still be floating around here somewhere. Stuff like that gets lost easily. I prefer the offset of a later model Kamisori. That set above, seems like legit museum piece, like a national treasure sorta thing. Seems odd that it's for sale on a public auction site.

Agree, it is a bit odd. I assume you would buy it primarily as an exhibition piece and for the coolness factor of it having been owned by a Shogun.

 

[Steve56]

They shave fine. They’re very light, and the steel in mine are very, very, hard.