Goromaru・五郎丸・Kamisori ・Restored Vintage Japanese Straight Razor・ Rattan Handle Wrapping・Handmade Hinoki Wood BoxGoromaruJapanese straight razorKamisori. Directly imported from Japan and restored by us to a hair popping quality and sharpness. With Specially made Hinoki Wood Box. The razor was made in the Showa period, approximately in the 1940s.

Honuyama・本羽山・Vintage Japanese straight razor (Kamisori)

Engraved on the lid is an Ukiyo-e woodblock print of Kitagawa Utamaro's "Komurasaki of the Tamaya House After a Bath" Dated around 1795

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Tosuke Inoue ・ 井上藤助  ・Vintage unused Kamisori ・Directly imported from Japan and restored by us to a hair-popping quality and sharpness

You may know Shiseido from their cosmetic lines but they also produced safety razors

There are 2 things: Firstly the steel is real Tamahagane

It comes with some original Razor blades

The Water Margin"

It shows a woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi of Hanjo Danjo-no-jo Arakage - a warrior of the Mori clan fighting of a giant Salamander

that the markings do mean this

A medium sized Kamisori

Bluing is similar to the protective coat which the razor had after being quenched in the time it has been made