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[MATAGI NAGASA Knife]
MATAGI is groups of supermen of hunters in Japan for 600 years of their history in recorded document.
They hunt bear, rabbit, dear, boar, fish, mountain vegetables and etc, even they do it without gun. MATAGI NAGASA is a very reliable knife which they carry it anywhere they go in mountains.
They say, as long as we have MATAGI NAGASA Knife, we can survive wherever we go in mountains. The handle is forged steel with a hollow in the middle. It can put a wood rod into the hole, and put a pin in the side of a small hole, and then it can use it as a spear.
It has been proved to hunt bears, dears, and boars with the spear. It can be Haken (piton) to climb up mountain. The blade of the knife is made of Yasuki Hagane which is the same kinds of the steel of Japanese sword. Yasuki Hagane is controlled by Hitachi Metal Co. after World War II, but MATAGI NAGASA knife is used old stock from before WWII. It is totally different steel from after WWII. That is why it is still used as valuable steel No one else can get it commercially anymore, unless one melts down the steel products before WWII by recycle. It is very precious value steel. The wood cover is made as put on waist with strong strings. The wood is made out of Akita Wild Japanese Cedar that is one of highest quality Japanese cedar. Wild Japanese cedar will not get in several years, because it will be prohibited to cut down wild one. The back of wood cover can use it for cutting board, if it really need it. The Japanese cedar also has antibacterial effect. The blacksmith, Mr. Nishine is the forth generations of taking over the works to make MATAGI NAGASA Knife to save Fukuro Nagasa as one of traditional Japanese cultural treasures.