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Welcome to Workshop Kurogane

Create your own knives using traditional Japanese blacksmithing methods and take your masterpiece home with you. Classes are available in English and Japanese.

Our Courses

Choose from our one-day knife-making workshop or six-day tamahagane smelting course, or inquire about arranging a customized workshop.

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One Day Knife-Making Workshop

Create your own custom knife in just one day. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to forge, grind, and heat treat their own knives using modern knife steel. *Not tamahagane.

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Tamahagane & Knife-Making Workshop

In this six-day workshop, participants can smelt and refine their own steel using beach sand magnetite, then fashion a knife using the tamahagane steel they helped to smelt.

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Request a Custom Workshop

Have a specific project in mind or are interested in a customized multi-day knife-making course? Send us a request for a custom workshop. *Booking is dependent on availability and request.

Book Your Course

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About Your Sensei

Nobuya Hayashi has run the Workshop Kurogane since 2011. With fluent English and 24 years of experience, he has welcomed the outside world into his workshop and strives to share his love for traditional Japanese knife-making.​​

 

Since 2021, Nobuya-sensei has taken on his own apprentice, Jesse from Canada, to provide even more support in his English-led workshops.

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“One of the best experiences I’ve had in Japan. They do an amazing job of teaching you and letting you do as much as possible while also ensuring that the finished product comes out perfect. Just the experience alone would have been worth the money if I didn’t get a knife out of it but the fact that I got a custom knife that I designed, helped make, and is incredibly sharp made this whole thing amazing.”

Timothy Fortin

Where We Are

Workshop Kurogane is located in Kochi Prefecture on Shikoku Island, deep within the lush, green mountains of the countryside along the famed Shimanto River.

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