Kitayama・Natural Finishing Stone ・Awasedo・Kyoto Japan #20Sourced from the Kitayama area near Mt. Kozaki in Kyoto, this slightly soft natural whetstone is known for its creamy sharpening feel and exceptional ease of use. Highly versatile and compatible with a wide range of steels, it produces a clean, even kasumi finish. Can also be used as one handed finishing stone. You will receive the exact stone shown.

Tosuke Inoue 井上藤助  straight razor (Kamisori)

Coming with new engraved Hinoki wood box  in New Old Stock condition

竹・bamboo(logo of Takeda Hamono

To protect the razor edge

8 cm and the weight is 30

most likely made by Master Shigeoshi Iwasaki or Mizuochi San in the 1960s the Japanese Showa period

It also has a very calming scent

beautiful to look at

We use a traditional wrapping technique for Kamisori

The Water Margin"

Both Kamisoris were made in the Meiji Era

Still this piece works perfectly fine