Hitachi steel wrappers

[jonathandowers]

I heard the hitachi steels are named after their wrapper colors (aogami, shirogami, etc). Anyone have any pictures showing that's the case?

 

[barmettlerjosh]

I herd the same thing, someone told me that hitachi steals should not be called paper steels it should be called label steels.

For example white paper steal should be called white label steel.

 

[Max Archer]

For what it's worth "aogami" translates literally to "blue paper" and so on, so the term is technically correct. I don't know whether it refers to a blue paper label or wrapper or what, though.