Sashimi knives: to cut wafer-thin slices of sashimi

A sashimi knife is a long kitchen knife for cutting and preparing sashimi. Sashimi is a Japanese dish consisting of wafer-thin slices of meat and fish. Sashimi knives are not actually a type of knife. It is a collective term for all long, Japanese kitchen knives for cutting sashimi. For instance, yanagiba and sujihiki knives both count as sashimi knives. To make things easy, this page contains all Japanese kitchen knives that are suitable for cutting sashimi.