園芸道具の中で一番使用頻度が高い道具が鋏です。種類も多くそれぞれ特徴を持っています。

それは、使用していた植木職人の使い易さから改良が重ねられて発展した物だからです。

植木鋏の中で「大久保鋏」と言う種類があります。

これは、江戸時代に神田小川町の旗本大久保彦左衛門の屋敷に 出入をしていた植木職人が使用していた鋏と言われています。

大久保様は、植木職人の枝を切る音が大好きだったそうです。

このように、園芸の道具は、使用者と製作者が非常に 近く頻繁に改良がされてその鋏の名前に由来しています。

弊社の園芸鋏「定信」は、創業者柴田真左エ門の父真助が宮大工として京都御所の改築の折に拝命した「藤原定信」に由来しており弊社製造の園芸鋏・盆栽鋏の商標として使用しております。

切味の良さ使い易さに基準を設け、特に刃の裏面と刃先、カシメの調整を職人による手仕事の工程を施しております。

弊社創業者、柴田真左エ門は、東京で刃物鍛冶を修行し明治四十年国産品最初の園芸道具を作り、それが現在の園芸道具の原型となっています。

大正三年園芸鋏を中心とした園芸器具を製作し「藤原定信」としての登録商標をとり現在に至っています。

昭和九年八月昭和天皇に園芸道具一式を献上いたしました。

この園芸鋏は、素材である鉄から型を作り刃金をつけ、最後の仕上げまで真左エ門の意志を受け継いで作り上げたものです。

What are “SADANOBU”, our bonsai gardening shears/scissors?

Shears/scissors are the most frequently used gardening tools.There are many types, each with their own characteristics,because it was developed through repeated improvements based on the ease of use by the gardeners who used it.Among gardening shears/scissors,there is a type called “Okubo scissors”, which are said to have been used by a gardener who frequented the mansion of Hatamoto, Mr. Okubo Hikozaemon in Ogawamachi,Kanda (a town in the current Tokyo capital city),during the Edo period.Mr. Okubo was said to have loved the sound of the gardener cutting branches.This episode shows how close the user and the maker of gardening tools are to each other,allowing improvements to be made frequently. And such intimacy is often shown in the names of these tools.

Our company's gardening shears/scissors "Sadanobu" originates from "Fujiwara Sadanobu,"– this is an artisanal special name given to the founder Shinzaemon Shibata's father,Shinsuke, as a shrine carpenter when renovating the Kyoto Imperial Palace.“Sadanobu” is used as a trademark of all our gardening and bonsai shears/scissors.We are very proud of their sharpness and ease of use. In particular, the back of the blade,the cutting edge, and the crimping are all adjusted and perfectionated by hand by our craftsmen.

Our founder, Shinzaemon Shibata, trained as a knife-smith in Tokyo and created the first domestic gardening tools in 1909,which became the prototype of today's gardening tools.In 1912, he obtained the registered trademark “Fujiwara Sadanobu”,for various gardening tools mainly shears,and this trademark is still in use today. In August 1933, we had an honor of presenting a set of gardening tools to Emperor Showa.

These gardening shears/scissors were produced by diligently following Shinzaemon's spirit throughout the process of its making– from making the mold out of the material iron andattaching the blade metal, to the final finishing touches.