: Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Knife

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Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Knife

Kanso 
簡素

Kan — sim­ple, so — essence.

By remov­ing the non-essential and ornate, we can express a bare and hon­est sim­plic­ity. Sto­ries told by nature is just that, unpre­ten­tious and with no need for orna­men­ta­tion. Because sim­plic­ity is hon­est, in it we can place our trust and find com­fort. Sim­plic­ity is doing more with enough, easy to under­stand, and not lock­ing our­selves into pre­de­fined assumptions.

Kenya Hara (Art Director of Japanese brand MUJI) used an exam­ple of a Henck­els andYanagi ba knife.

The Henck­els knife fits the hand of the cook beau­ti­fully com­pared to the flat han­dle of the Japan­ese knife. As Kenya Hara puts it:

A flat han­dle is not seen as raw or poorly crafted. On the con­trary, its per­fect plain­ness is meant to say, “You can use me whichever way suits your skills.” The Japan­ese knife adapts to the cook’s skill (not to the cook’s thumb).

: Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Knife