Seki, Gifu is today considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives famed throughout the world.
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After the Meiji Restoration, the carrying of swords by the samurai class was banned as part of an attempt to modernise Japan.
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