Exclusive to The Japanese Shop, The Santoku Professional Japanese Chefs Knife is a superb quality Japanese kitchen knife made from strong Damascus steel with a black pakka wood handle. Santoku refers to the three cutting tasks which the knife performs extremely well: slicing, dicing, and mincing. This Japanese kitchen knife has a beautiful wood grain effect on the blade called Senbon Kurokaki, which means one in a thousand black persimmon trees, which are regarded as the most valuable wood…