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Shun Cutlery Kanso 6-Piece Block Set, Kitchen Knife and Knife Block Set, Includes Kanso 8” Chef, 5.5” Santoku, 6” Utility & 3.5” Paring Knives, Handcrafted Japanese Kitchen Knives

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Brand Shun
Blade Material High Carbon Stainless Steel
Blade Edge Straight
Item Dimensions LxWxH 12.5 x 13.5 x 3 inches

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  • START YOUR COLLECTION: The Shun Kanso 6-Piece Build-A-Block Set helps you start your cooking knife set with the essentials all in one beautiful knife block.
  • SET INCLUDES: This knife and block set includes the Kanso 8" Chef's Knife, 5.5" Hollow-Ground Santoku Knife, 6" Utility Knife, 3.5" Paring Knife, Combination Honing Steel, and a matching solid wood knife block.
  • KANSO KNIFE SERIES features durable, wear-resistant AUS10A high-carbon stainless steel reinforced with vanadium for a strong, razor-sharp edge. The contoured tagayasan wood handle is beautiful, durable, and comfortable to use.
  • BEAUTIFUL KNIFE BLOCK: This set includes an 8-slot solid wood knife block with a beautiful finish that matches the Kanso knife handles. It easily holds everything in this set with additional slots for you to expand your collection.
  • TRADITIONAL, ARTISAN CUTLERY: Inspired by the traditions of ancient Japan, Shun knives are handcrafted by highly skilled artisans to produce blades of unparalleled quality and beauty.

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Shun

“Shun” (shoon) is a concept at the very heart of Japanese cuisine. In Japanese, shun is the word used to describe local, seasonal food when it is at the peak of its flavor and freshness—at the peak of its perfection.

Shun Cutlery is known for its exquisite beauty and ultra-premium performance. Yet as beautiful as Shun is on the outside, and as beautifully as it performs in your kitchen, its true beauty may be in what you don’t see.

Handcrafted in Japan

Shun is dedicated to maintaining this ancient tradition by continuing to handcraft each knife in our Seki City facilities. Each piece of this fine kitchen cutlery takes at least 100 individual steps to complete. While we maintain these ancient traditions of handcrafted quality, we also take advantage of thoroughly modern, premium materials and state-of-the-art technology to provide that traditional quality to millions of professional chefs and avid home cooks throughout the world.

Knife Steel is Essential

Heat treatment—an invisible, yet vital, process. This exacting process is fundamentally important to ensuring that your Shun provides lasting value. In heat treatment, the metal is heated and cooled to change its microstructure, bringing out its very best properties. With precise heat treatment, blade steel becomes finer grained, making it stronger and harder so blades can be thinner, sharper, and give you a longer-lasting edge. Shun’s experts are, quite simply, masters of the heat treatment process.

Quality and Performance

Shun is the exact moment when a fruit has reached its ideal ripeness, when a vegetable is at its very best, or when meat is at its most flavorful. Home cooks and professional chefs alike celebrate shun in their kitchens, eagerly awaiting each season’s bounty and serving every ingredient in its proper time.

Shun Cutlery proudly takes its name from this Japanese culinary tradition of eating the freshest food at the perfect moment. We took this name to honor this seasonal, mindful way of eating and as a mark of our dedication to making kitchen cutlery that is always at the peak of its perfection, too.

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Shun Kanso

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Kanso is a design principle based on Zen philosophy. It means "simplicity" but it is a simplicity that is achieved by concentrating solely on what is most essential. When it comes to Shun's Kanso cutlery, essential means high-performance steel, a razor sharp edge, perfect balance, and precision cutting control.

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Tagayasan Wood Handle

Known as "iron sword wood" - the Kanso line features a Tagayasan Wood handle that is notable for its denseness, durability, and simple beauty while providing easy cutting control. The handle is also angled for a comfortable chef's grip and precision cutting.

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Shun Cutlery Kanso 6-Piece Block Set, Kitchen Knife and Knife Block Set, Includes Kanso 8” Chef, 5.5” Santoku, 6” Utility & 3.5” Paring Knives, Handcrafted Japanese Kitchen Knives


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The Shun Cutlery Kanso 6-Piece Block Set is the perfect way to start off your kitchen cutlery collection. It includes the Kanso 8-inch Chef's Knife, 5.5-inch Hollow-Ground Santoku Knife, 6-inch Utility Knife, 3.5-inch paring knife, Combination Honing Steel, and a beautiful solid wood knife block. Kanso knives are constructed with corrosion- and wear-resistant AUS10A high-carbon stainless steel reinforced with vanadium for a strong, razor-sharp 16-degree cutting edge that glides through food. The full-tang handle construction uses contoured tagayasan, known as "iron sword wood," that's beautiful, durable, and comfortable to use. The solid wood knife block has a beautiful finish that matches the Kanso knife handles. It's 8 slots easily hold everything in this set with additional knife slots plus a shear slot for you to expand your collection. In Japan, the blade is more than a tool – it's a tradition. Housed in Seki City, the heart of the Japanese cutlery industry, Shun Fine Cutlery is dedicated to maintaining this ancient tradition. Each knife is handcrafted by highly skilled artisans to produce blades of unparalleled quality and beauty. We also leverage modern, premium materials and state-of-the-art technology to provide Shun quality to millions of professional chefs and avid home cooks throughout the world.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
72 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the quality of the knife set. They say the blades are very sharp out of the box. Some customers are mixed on appearance.

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9 customers mention7 positive2 negative

Customers like the quality of the knife set. They mention that the knives are very sharp out of the box, and are still sharp after a month. Some customers also mention that they are really nice knives, but some did not receive an edge.

"...block is great and all the knives that come with it are sharp very sharp out the box. Can't wait to fill the block fully" Read more

"so sharp, very cool, glad i got these, nice block for display, unusual shape and look. extra slots for scissors and knife. love these knives...." Read more

"Love these so far. Only used them for a month, but the blades are still sharp. Only time will tell" Read more

"...But the design, after some use, shows its defects. the wooden handle looks dull after some use...." Read more

8 customers mention5 positive3 negative

Customers are mixed about the appearance of the knife block set. Some mention that it looks amazing, cool, and minimal. However, others say that the wooden handle looks dull after some use, the knives are dull, and the handles are rough and unfinished.

"Love the shun kanso set. Great quality knife, very sharp, and looks amazing...." Read more

"so sharp, very cool, glad i got these, nice block for display, unusual shape and look. extra slots for scissors and knife. love these knives...." Read more

"...This set is aesthetically pleasing and i was attracted to this very minimal design on the web. But the design, after some use, shows its defects...." Read more

"Beautiful knives that I am beyond excited to use, but my order was managed sloppily. The honing tool isn't the one depicted...." Read more

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