Carefully selected from Japan, this vintage decorative wooden Ainu knife comes from the Ainu people of Hokkaido. The Menoko Makiri, or women's knife, is a small, short knife. In traditional Ainu culture, a man would carve a Menoko Makiri for a woman to propose to marry her. If she accepted, she would wear it at her waist.
Carefully selected from Japan, this vintage decorative wooden Ainu knife comes from the Ainu people of Hokkaido. The Menoko Makiri, or women's knife, is...
