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It challenged sharpening of the first grader in the Sakae junior high school the kitchen knife on the 18th by study that sharpened Sanjo city junior high school student's kitchen knife.

2.17.2009

The Sanjo city did "Study that sharpened the kitchen knife" to sharpen the kitchen knife in all of the nine junior high schools in the city with the whetstone every year when wonderful of the traditional culture was understood with a kitchen knife that was the special product of "Town of the hardware" Sanjo, and the 18th the first studied in the Sakae junior high school (Kazuo Hachiman principal and 390 students).

The first grader in Sakae junior high school that does study that sharpens kitchen knife

The first grader in Sakae junior high school that does study that sharpens kitchen knife

Study on which it has worked for five years. Studied "Tool study for woodwork" It points a pencil with the knife in the elementary school, and "Knife study" that makes the bamboo dragonfly or "Wakugi making study" is done, and the child and all students experience each of ..graduate.. studies the experience of the usage of "Study that sharpens the kitchen knife" and the carpenter's tool in the junior high school.

Study that sharpens the kitchen knife is experienced by the first grader in the Sakae junior high school. Four people came from the group that sharpened the cutlery of Silver Manpower Center to a school as a lecturer, four classes of the first grader changed places every hour, and this day was attended.

34 students participated in two pairs for one year. After it had listened to the explanation of how to sharpen the kitchen knife and the kind and the kitchen knife of the whetstone, it practiced. The student brought the kitchen knife from the home respectively, had the handle of the kitchen knife in the right hand, inclined the kitchen knife from the whetstone to about 15 degrees, held the near blade to be sharpened by the left hand, and slided on the whetstone back and forth.

The student who says to the sharpened sound named, "The sound is horror" also. When water was applied to the kitchen knife, the feeling was called and sharpened with "Kaeri" confirming, and repeatedly touching around of the blade by the finger sometimes. The kitchen knife that had finished being sharpened tried, cut newspaper, and confirmed sharpness.

The schoolgirl of having seen the grandmother sharpen it actually experiences and is "It was difficult to keep the angle of the kitchen knife. " at home. The schoolboy「Did you become tired?。The hand became cold. 」Interest to which sharpness was revived still for myself , saying that "Even the person wants to try again" was actually felt speaking.

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