Toyama Hamono has been making shears in Sanjō, Niigata, one of Japan's great blacksmithing towns, since 1861. Founder Ryūmatsu Toyama, a craftsman from Wakasa, forged his first shears from metal reclaimed from old warships, and the business has passed down through five generations of the Toyama family ever since.
Each generation added something: Tomijirō developed shears for cutting metal in the 1880s, Hidekichi founded Toyama Hamono Works in 1906 and brought in drop-forging, and Hidehisa and Hideo turned the workshop towards bonsai and ikebana shears in the mid-20th century. In 2020 fifth-generation Hidenobu brought the family businesses together as Toyama Hamono Co., Ltd.
Every pair is still finished by hand, one at a time. Toyama shears have won a Good Design Award, and in 2023 they were named Sustainable Garden Product of the Show at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.
Leather Holster for Gardening Shears
Leather Holster for Gardening Shears
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This cowhide sheath is perfect for keeping your secateurs to hand while in the garden.
It is universally sized to accept secateurs as well as thin-bladed pruning snips in sizes from 180m to 210mm.
It includes metal belt clip that allows it to be quickly hung from the belt on the way out of the shed, and quickly unclipped at the end of a day's work.
This leather is vegetable tanned and unsealed and so will patinate, change colour and grow to reflect it's useful and productive role in the garden.
