The Nakiri model, also nicknamed the "Shovel" knife, is a Japanese kitchen knife with a long, tall, rectangular blade and a rounded tip. It's specifically designed for mincing vegetables and herbs. Its distinctive features allow for an ultra-fast, precise vertical cut through all your vegetables, without the hand holding the handle knocking against your cutting board at the end of the motion.
At Wusaki, we offer this Japanese vegetable knife in several versions. The steels and handle materials we offer are all of high quality, each with its own specific properties. So you could just as easily set your sights on a Nakata handcrafted Nakiri with its maple wood handle, as a Nawame AUS10 Damascus Nakiri with its ebony wood handle.




