About

NAGIBA (凪, "nagi" — the calm after the wind) is a small kitchen-knife brand based in Brooklyn, New York.

We design Japanese-style kitchen knives — gyuto, yanagiba, nakiri, deba, sujihiki — and have them made to our specifications by specialist knife workshops in China. Every knife is inspected here in Brooklyn before it ships, and every order is packed and shipped by us, not by a warehouse.

We sell direct so that a properly made VG10, 10Cr15 or S35VN blade with a real wood handle costs what it should, not what a brand name adds.

What we stand behind: honest steel descriptions, real hardness numbers, and a 30-day return policy. If something is wrong with your knife, email us — a person answers.