Seki City in Gifu Prefecture is a town of cutlery with a tradition of over 700 years. The “Gifu Seki Cutlery Festival” is a major event that graces the autumn in Seki, the city of swords. This event started in 1968 and has continued for more than half a century. The most attractive feature of the Cutlery Festival is the “Cutlery Great Bargain Market” where more than 40 cutlery manufacturers and wholesalers in the city open their stores. A wide variety of high-quality Seki cutlery, including kitchen knives, scissors, nail clippers, and knives, are sold at bargain prices only at the Cutlery Festival. Outlet items, which are only sold at this cutlery festival, are also available can purchase high quality cutlery at reasonable prices.
Another attractive event that is not to be outdone by the “Cutlery Grand Sale Market” is the “Seki Outdoors Knife Show,” where knife makers not only from the city but from all over the country display and sell their products. A large number of knives of various types from factory makers in the city and custom makers not only in Japan but also abroad are on display. There are also limited edition and special price knives for sale that can only be purchased at this knife festival.
Other events that only the “City of Cutlery” can offer include a spectacular demonstration of old-style Japanese sword forging with sparks flying, demonstrations of iaikiri and battoujutsu techniques, knife sharpening, and knife tests.
Seki's cutlery” where the outstanding traditional techniques and spirit of the Seki tradition are passed down from generation to generation.
