Pumpkin knife

A pumpkin is a kabocha, but a kabocha is a squash.

Very cute design, love the pumkin seeds on it and the colours used. Just a bit too expensive.

The knife features an oval grip designed for ease of use and has a safety and a rounded point to prevent slipping

Who will be the first to use this in a crime?

I want one of these! It's always such a mission to cut up a pumpkin in a low Japanese sink bench... ><

Kabocha Knife!

That's a cute knife! Still, while I agree that it is a mission, I'm a woman and cutting apart Japanese pumpkins never struck me as such a hardship that I'd go out and buy specialized equipment for it. That said, I'm sure there are lots of women who don't appreciate the extra elbow grease involved.

My 100 yen kitchen knife cuts through pumpkins just fine. Still, I'd like to have this one!

They should make a pumpkin carving kit.

Does this tool not facilitate young men cutting pumpkins with a minimum of effort? and if so, how does it distinguish the user's gender? Exactly how, or with what does one hold the knife.

I am Prince Peter, pumpkin eater. I need no knife.

I love the design and will purchase one as they hit the market.

Would be a fine Xmas present for the folks back home.

sh4ek: exactly - this knife is too short for splitting whole pumpkins. Buttercup/squash maybe.

Not necessary IMHO. A good-quality scallop-edge Breadknife (i.e., pretty much the standard Breadknife) will easily and precisely 'crack' a pumpkin - and do so with quite a minimal amount of downward pressure. There is then no need to use a cutting action and, hence, very much less danger of slippage. But, it is a great looking knife....

specially for women and elderly..its both sexist and ageist...

There is a shop in Akihabara that has a sign that reads in English "We cannot sell knives to foreigners"....I wonder if they include this cute pumpkin slasher.