Kiritsuke and specialty knives for cooks who want a distinctive blade with a defined job. The kiritsuke — long, flat-profiled, with its signature angled tip — is the traditional master's knife, equally at home push-cutting vegetables and handling fine point work.

Alongside it sit the less common shapes that don't fit a standard category: purpose-built profiles from artisan makers, chosen for cooks who already know exactly what they're looking for.