Along with the “Day of Cutlery”, the special festival Gifu Seki November 8th 14:54
November 8th is called “Cutting Day” with the words “I, I, Ha”. In Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, where traditional knives are produced, there was a memorial festival for knives that were no longer used at home.
Seki City and other local governments with a thriving cutlery industry have designated November 8th as “Cutaway Day”, and Seki City holds a special festival every year to appreciate the cutlery.
About 50,000 knives and scissors from all over the country were collected at the “Kutsukazuka” in the “Seki Forge Denshokan”.
The collected tools are once melted at a metal processing company in Nagoya City and then recycled into steel.
A 70-year-old woman from Seki City who visited with about 40 cutlery on behalf of the local chef's association said, “It is really important to use cutlery for cooking. I was talking.
Yoshiharu Suzuki, Chairman of the Seki Cutlery Federation of Gifu Prefecture, said, “Since cutlery is indispensable for life, I want you to use it with love and care.”