Mikado

Mikado is a professional shear line that reaches stylists through Takano Canada, a specialty scissor retailer serving salons and barbers in the Canadian market. It sits in Takano’s catalogue alongside lines like the Atali house brand, and as with several of those, the retailer’s storefront is where the authoritative detail lives.

A consistent hand

What is striking about Mikado is how unified the range feels. The catalogue runs across coded series, the MX, QX, and XS families, with models like the QX-50 and QX-60, plus a compact Petit M for stylists who want a shorter blade. Across all of them the design language holds steady: an ergonomic offset handle with a camel-bump finger rest, a detachable finger rest so you can set it up your way, convex blades, and a tension screw fitted with a blue stone. That kind of consistency suggests a single design vision rather than a grab-bag of sourced models.

The catch is the steel. Retailers describe the blades only as high-quality stainless, with no specific JIS grade published in the sources we have, so the metallurgy stays vague. For a working stylist that may matter less than the handle ergonomics and the convex edge, both of which are spelled out clearly.

Pricing sits in the mid-range, roughly 200 to 400 dollars, with exact figures on each model living on the live Takano Canada listing, which also handles ordering, warranty, and after-sales questions. More makers from the region are in our South Korea hub.