Kiya was established in 1792 as a cutlery store.
It was in 1792 that the originator of Kiya permitted the founder Iisuke Kato to have a store which had same name. A founder of the originator is Kyube Hayashi, and his original family name was Fujiwara, and he served to Toyotomi family as a tradesman of medicine materials in Osaka. Then Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa invited his brother to Edo, and he had a store in 2-Honcho.
His store was separated from the Osaka store, so he separated a Chinese character of his family name(林) into two parts(木 and 木), then he named his store Kiya (木屋).
Dedicated for cutting vegetables
Cutting point (top) makes easy to cut fish and meat. Also good for vegetables