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The Bonsai tool originator MASAKUNI Co., Ltd. is the
only one full-scale maker in Japan and has over three-quarters century
of experience in producing Bonsai training tools.
Over seventy years ago a pair of specially designed shears was brought
to the Bonsai world by a Bonsai enthusiast after his long terms of experiences
and researches. His name is Shichinosuke Kawasumi, the MASAKUNI
1st. who was a well-known manufacturer of Flower Arranging scissors and
Medical use cutting tools. This pair of shears was the original shears
in Japan specially designed for Bonsai training. And it was the real opening
of the history of Bonsai training tools. Since then Shichinosuke
threw himself into the developing of Bonsai tools and began the co-operative
research with Mr.Kyuzo Murata, the famous Bonsai master of Kyuka-en
in Omiya Bonsai village. This research bore fruits and a number of epoch-making
tools were created by them.
Ever since those days, over two generations, MASAKUNl has been concentrating
on developing and perfecting the Bonsai training tools and has been giving
a great deal of contribution to the progress and propagation of the Bonsai
cultivation techniques. Through this history the superiority of MASAKUNI's
tools has been achieving the firm recognition of so many professionals
and advanced amateurs. And at the same time a tradition has been growing
up with MASAKUNI BRAND -----a tradition of highest quality reliability
and originality.
The outshining sharpness and durability of MASAKUNI's tools are based on
MASAKUNI's original continuous making process, in which the world famed
manufacturing tradition of Japanese Sword is aliving supported by the contemporary
scientific quality control.
Using the highest quality pure steel as the material, by well-experienced
craftsmen, MASAKUNI's tools are forged and forged completely, trained under
the special method of heat treatment and made sharpen to obtain the ideal
angle of the blade. Moreover one by one, they are adjusted precisely and
checked from detail to detail including the microscope examination.
Today Bonsai has become the international art of nature. MASAKUNI's tools
are being used by a lot of Bonsai people throughout the world. These actual
results have formed MASAKUNI's today's tradition and will make the history
of tomorrow. We can say it clear that;
The history of MASAKUNI's Bonsai tools is the history of Bonsai tools
in the world!
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