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Don't Kill the Fish (III)
Posted by Alfredo J. Martiz J. (Panama City, Panama) on 13 July 2007 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
The long knife that you can see in this photo is called Oroshi hocho, they are extremely long and highly specialized knives used in Japan to fillet tuna and other large fish.
The oroshi hocho is the longer blade with a blade length of 150 cm (60 inches) in addition to a 30 cm (12 inch) handle, and can fillet a tuna in a single cut, although usually two to three people are needed to handle the knife and the tuna. The flexible blade is curved to the shape of the spine to minimize the amount of meat remaining on the tuna chassis.
Source: Wikipedia
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Photo from a visit to the Tsukiji Fish Market in June 10th, 2006.
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