Our Courses
Choose from our one-day knife-making workshop or six-day tamahagane smelting course, or inquire about arranging a customized workshop.
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.
Tamahagane & Knife Workshop
In this six-day workshop, participants can smelt and refine their own steel using beach sand magnetite, then fashion a knife using the steel they helped to smelt.
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.
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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.
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.