Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A hand forged carbon steel hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, with a longish arcing trapezoid head and Japanese oak handle. These are used with a chopping action to dig, break up, weed, and till soil amidst beds and borders. Proper use is a kind of circular chop and pull to loosen soil - this shouldn't be used..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A forked cultivating hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan. Hand forged of carbon steel with a lightweight 900mm poplar wood handle. Used to break up and aerate compacted soil, pulling weeds, and clearing straggly roots, leaves, and debris, especially amidst tight beds and r..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small hand cultivator or root hook hand made in a small workshop in Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With two carbon steel hooked tines fixed to a shaped poplar wood handle, in Japan these are often used to clean soil from around the roots of transplanted specimens, particularly f..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small forked cultivating hoe from Tsubame-Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture in central Japan. Hand forged of carbon steel with a Japanese oak handle. Used to break up and aerate compacted soil, pulling weeds, and clearing straggly roots, leaves, and debris, especially amidst tight beds and rows of vege..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A carbon steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle fitted to a hexagonal poplar wood handle for a better and more comfortable grip. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade these could reasonably be considered a lig..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A stainless steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade these could reasonably be considered a lightweight hybrid of pruning saw and classic smooth bladed sickles. Typically us..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A diminutive razor or sickle hoe with a sharpened slightly curved carbon steel blade and poplar wood handle. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. Ideal for container and glasshouse gardening where the small size allows easy access in tight spaces and between tight planti..
£10.50
Ex Tax:£8.75
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small but handy carbon steel blade attached to a black lacquered finger ring from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Usually used on the forefinger and like a pruning knife against the pad of the thumb, this is designed for use picking small and soft fruits, espec..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A hand made carbon steel serrated hooked knife with a long poplar wood handle from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Used for harvesting asparagus the sharp, fine, but relatively aggressive serrations make short work of the hopefully not too fibrous stems of aspara..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small tightly curved stainless steel sickle knife with a poplar wood handle. Of a type especially useful for harvesting courgettes and similar squashes, the blade is simply hooked over the stem and whilst the fruit is gripped, pulled or eased through for release. From Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sa..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small professional grade weeding hoe hand forged of Hitachi SK steel fixed to a magnolia wood handle. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. A rare left-handed Japanese made razor type hoe, the angle is set and the blade sharpened for optimum weeding efficiency helping t..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A hand forged Aogami blue paper steel weeding sickle with a with a straight poplar wood handle from the workshops of Nagata Kamaya in Kasai City, Hyogo Prefecture, a small third generation manufacturer specialised in sickle making since 1947. Aogami steels, named after the blue paper they are tradit..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A double sided triangular carbon steel cultivating hoe or light pick from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. A kind of one handed hoe, sharpened to the two leading edges and a point, best used under its own weight to cut through weeds and break up soil amidst beds and borde..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
An almost culinary standard knife with a very sharp acutely beveled almost rectangular carbon steel blade fixed to a magnolia wood handle, and cedar sheath. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. Used for harvesting cabbage and similar vegetables, the blade is sharpened su..
£65.00
Ex Tax:£54.17
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small razor or sickle hoe with a very sharp and fine pointed hand forged carbon steel blade fixed to a hexagonal poplar wood handle which allows for a better, more comfortable, and less fatiguing grip. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. An excellent small tool for cu..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00