Our Story

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KATABA Japanese Knife Shop is established in 2013 by Yokichi and Yuko Seno following the growing success of their online Japanese knife store www.kataba.co.uk 

Yokichi spent more than 8 years in Tokyo worked at high end French restaurant and 20 years as a chef at Japanese restaurants in London, including Michelin stared restaurants at TATSUSO in liverpool street and UMU Kyoto Kaiseki Cuisine in Mayfair and his last position as ‘executive head sushi & sashimi chef at ROKA Restaurant Group.

Yokichi’s passion for Japanese knives is founded on his total of 28 years long experience of working with and maintaining these beautiful tools. 

All Japanese cooking knives are known for their high quality to chefs around the world and here KATABA we would like to introduce even finer, genuine handmade knives to as many people as possible.

We are dedicated to providing excellent knives and helping you get the best out of them. For this reason we offer  a range of aftercare services. These include sharpening, repairing chips, handle changing and balancing.*

*Please note, we offer handle changing on Japanese traditional knives only.

KATABA’s motto is to provide knives of the most excellent cutting ability and usability at reasonable prices.

KATABA－Our store is named after KATABA, the traditional Japanese single bevel knife.