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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation Will Manidis @WillManidis Tool Shaped Objects 23 57 428 79K In 1711, a toolmaker in Kyoto named Chiyozuru Korehide began forging kanna blades for the carpenters building the temples at Higashi Hongan-ji. The blades were forged from laminated steal, the highest quality white hagane forge-welded to soft iron, and were extraordinary. Three hundred years later, his descendants still forge them. A Chiyozuru kanna costs somewhere between three hundred and three thousand dollars. It takes days to set up. The dai must be hand-fitted, the blade back flattened on a series of progressively finer stones, the chipbreaker mated until light cannot pass between it and the edge. Only then can you take a shaving. The shaving curls are transcendent. It is beautiful. It is also, i

Will Manidis @WillManidis Tool Shaped Objects 6:38 PM · Feb 11, 2026 4.3M Views 349 0 3 4 9 1.1K 0 1 . 1 K 9.3K 0 9 . 3 K 12K 0 1 2 K Read 349 replies

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