The Santoku knife incorporates the strengths of the Gyuto and the kitchen knives and comes with a wide-width design, ideal for home use. This knife can handle meat, fish and vegetables (three uses) that is the origin of the knife name. The series of Gyuto knife, Nashiji has a sandwich structure with stainless and steel (shirogami (white paper) No.1). The surface of the blade is called Nashiji because it looks like skin of Japanese pair and that prevents slices from sticking to the blade. This series of the the knife is the most reasonable price. The steel (shirogami (white paper) No.1), which is white steel called shirogami (white paper), contains many carbon and that makes knife hard and high sharpness cutting blade, and the raw materials are made by Hitachi Metals, Ltd.