Ichiro Seiki

About Ichiro Seiki

Ichiro Seiki — operating at ichiroseiki.com — is the official store of the Ichiro scissor workshop: the Tokyo-headquartered maker whose shears are finished by hand in Saitama, Japan, and sold to professionals across 31 countries. Where the brand’s authorised retailers carry selected Ichiro models alongside other Japanese houses, the official store is the single source for the complete collection, the workshop’s sharpening service, and direct communication with the people who make the tools.

The official source for the full Ichiro collection

The workshop organises its shears into five collections — Signature, New, Craft, Thinning, and Limited — each series named after something quiet: the moon, cherry blossom, shadow. Every pair carries the individual number of the maker who sealed it, a traceability step that ties each scissor back to the workbench where it was finished. Buying through the official store, or through a dealer certified by the workshop, is the way to be certain a pair is genuine Ichiro production and covered by the workshop’s lifetime warranty.

The site also serves as the workshop’s professional education channel, publishing material on steel, blade geometry, handle ergonomics, thinning technique, and maintenance — the same knowledge the Saitama team applies when pairs return for servicing.

How an Ichiro is made

The workshop describes its production as four practised motions, unchanged from the craftspeople who taught the current makers:

• Steel — VG-10 and ATS-314 forged to 58–62 HRC, each billet rested and selected by hand.
• Edge — a hamaguriba convex edge ground across three whetstones, with 32 separate checks before a pair reaches first inspection.
• Alignment — the two blades are mated at five pressure points; if the closing whisper sounds wrong, the pair goes back to the start.
• Finish — hand-polished to 16,000 grit, then engraved and numbered by the maker who seals the box.

The Saitama workshop produces fewer than 40 pairs a day and states no interest in producing more. That output ceiling is the brand’s quality mechanism: every pair passes through twelve workbenches and the same pair of hands from rough blade to sealed box.

From a small Tokyo workshop to 31 countries

Ichiro’s own timeline traces a deliberate path. Between 2004 and 2014 the workshop built international partnerships with specialist scissor stores in Australia, Canada, and the United States. From 2015 to 2018 its professional and apprentice sets won repeated best-value awards. In 2018 Japan Scissors signed as the Australian distribution partner, anchoring the brand’s presence in that market. In 2021 the workshop launched ichiroseiki.com to speak directly with resellers, distributors, and working stylists worldwide.

Warranty, sharpening, and service

Every genuine Ichiro pair carries the workshop’s lifetime warranty. The sharpening service accepts pairs back at the Saitama workshop whenever the edge needs attention — the same team that finishes new shears restores used ones. Enquiries about sizing, series selection, wholesale, and distribution run through the official contact page, with local support also handled by authorised retailers in each region.

Also available through authorised retailers

Ichiro Seiki supplies a network of specialist retailers for stylists who prefer local pricing, currency, and delivery: Japan Scissors and Scissor Hub in Australia, Japan Scissors NZ and Scissor Hub NZ in New Zealand, JPScissors in the United States, Japan Scissor Shop in Canada, Japan Scissors UK in the United Kingdom, Ciseaux Japon in France, and Forbici Giappone in Italy.

See Also

Ichiro brand profile → Best Ichiro scissors → Best Juntetsu scissors → Best Mina scissors → Juntetsu official store → Mina Scissors official store → Japan Scissors Australia →

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