Narutaki — Suita

185×92×25mm — mounted on a wooden base finished by hand with Japanese urushi lacquer.

A Narutaki suita — colourful, and unusually easy to live with. Fast and forgiving: a clean result on an ordinary day, not only on a good one.

Iron clad and wrought iron are where it shines — every detail lifted, high contrast held against the semi-mirror core.

On honyaki it leaves the hagane clean, which is exactly where you want it. What follows isn't a correction, only a brightness lift with finger stones; the jigane may take a light pass of Zero, and you're essentially there.

Slightly harder than an uchigumori.