About

The Tomita mark

Nisaku is a name you will find stamped on the blade, next to the words Made in Japan. Behind it is Tomita Cutlery, a Japanese blade maker established in 1960, and a simple idea: a tool good enough to deserve a permanent peg on the wall.

1960

Tomita Cutlery founded in Japan

54

Nisaku tools on this site

HRC58

Hardness of the special edition hori blades

7.25 in

Blade of the original NJP650

Where the hori came from

The hori hori was first a tool of the Matagi, the traditional hunters of the Japanese mountains, who used it to dig sansai, the wild vegetables of the slopes. Nisaku took that pattern, ground it from Japanese stainless steel with a straight and a serrated edge, stamped inch markings down the blade, and called it the NJP650. It became the knife gardeners lend to neighbors and never get back.

What hangs next to it

The same workshop makes the nejiri gama and its family of hand hoes, claw cultivators, crack weeders with corrugated blades, crescent and saw-tooth sickles, kawasuki and jihera scrapers, bread knives and the nata hatchet. In the United States, Nisaku is distributed by Snow Joe + Sun Joe.

Why this site exists

We built the tool wall to show the whole Nisaku range in one place, with plain descriptions, real specifications and the questions people ask before choosing. When you pick a tool, the order is placed with the partner store that sells it.