JAPANESE CAMELIA OIL - CARE OF KNIVES AND TOOLS - NIWAKI
The natural solution to keeping your knives and tools clean and rust-free.
Traditionally used in Japan for cleaning and as a protective coating for all steels.
Leaves a beautiful finish on your blades and tools, non-greasy, non-toxic, odorless and tasteless.
Use regularly on your blades, particularly carbon steel.
Made from cold-pressed Camellia Oleifera seeds, mixed with mineral oil.
Made in Japan
- Weight: 104g
- Capacity: 100 ml
- Natural, non-toxic, and non-flammable oil pressed from Camellia oleifera seeds
- Food-safe, but not for consumption
- Made in Japan
After studying sculpture in London, Jake Hobson went to Japan to investigate the Japanese relationship with nature and their surrounding environment.
Jake discovered that Japanese gardens didn't just look like gardens. They were mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, and waterfalls. It was everything he loved; these gardens told stories and referenced real landscapes in Japan.
Niwaki literally means "garden tree"; it is the art of tree pruning, which is very different from Bonsai, as the roots are not pruned. But Niwaki is much more than that. It implies a philosophy—that of the landscape, of recreating unique microcosms, and the vision of a man and his connection to, understanding of, and learning from nature.
But all this was possible thanks to the use of tools that share the same philosophy, created slowly, simply, and by hand, by local master blacksmiths with exceptional expertise.
For Jake Hobson, every tool involves three crucial elements:
- a good material, mainly high-quality carbon steel
- a good design, generally as simple as possible
- good craftsmanship, passed down from generation to generation.
Japanese tools do not skimp on any of these elements: you feel the quality of the craftsmanship the moment you hold them in your hand, they simply and perfectly do the job for which they are designed, and they last, holding their edge for a long time, rewarding the user with years, decades, and even lifetimes of pleasure.