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Higonokami is the name of Japanese traditional pocket knives that has been
produced since late 19th century.

Its construction is very simple and by mid 1950’s many of them were used by
elementary school students as one of their stationary goods. But as time
advances this “useful tool” were removed from their stationary products
because of the movement of knife control.

Sometimes Higonokami is called Japanese version of Opinel because of its
popularity and price. In Japan it used to be a lot of factories that had
been produced Higonokami knives, but there’re only a few existing these
days.

The knives are shown on our web-site are special made Higonokami knives by
using fine Blue Steel (Aogami) made by Hitachi metal in Japan.

Click here to see all Higonokami knives.

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In case that your order is out of stock, we will inform you of estimated date to restock.