What is Yoshihiro Yauji known for?

Yauji specialises in single-bevel Japanese knives, applying that expertise to single-bevel versions of the santoku, gyuto and petty knife. A Fukui cooperative publication records his certified technical speciality specifically as single-bevel production (片刃製造).

He works as both the blacksmith and the polisher of his knives, which he says lets feedback pass directly between forging and polishing because they are the same person. He has been photographed sharpening a freshly forged santoku in Echizen.