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STOLU. Dzien sloneczno-burzowy. Raz slonce, raz deszcz z gromami. Blyskawic nie widzialem. Cieplo, 13C. *** Robilem research na temat tradycyjnego japonskiego scyzoryka HIGONOKAMI. "Higo no Kami is also an aristocratic title historically given to powerful samurai" ("Nago Higonokami"). JAPANESE FOLDING KNIVES. Japan is a land of special knives - especially cooking knives. When it comes to folding knives, higonokami is one of the best-known and homely representatives. The starting point for its development must have been a knife whose handle was probably engraved with the legend Higonokami (Higo No Kami). Kami is an aristocratic title that can be translated as lord or governor. Higo Province is now part of the Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan. The Governor of Higo knife reached Miki, in the Hyogo Prefecture, at the end of the nineteenth century. Whether it looked like the higonokami we know today is uncertain. In Miki, there has been a knife-makers guild since 1899, and various members of the guild made the knife under the name "Hirata," named after a city district of Miki. In 1910, the term higonokami was protected as a trademark, and only members of the guild could so call their knives. Today there is just one remaining higonokami maker that can call on this guild tradition: Nagao from Miki. Typically a higonokami has an engraved handle of curved brass to which the forged blade is attached by a large rivet, and into which it completely disappears. There is no spring and no lock. Instead, the blade has a simple lever with which it can more easily be opened and then folded into the handle. For many decades the higonokami was Japan's most popular pocketknife and was a part of the basic equipment for Japanese men. In schools it was used in wood shop and to sharpen pencils, but in the 1960s, a new and very strict law was passed: henceforth, knives were not allowed in schools. The higonokami was also supplanted by more-modern pocketknives. A few small manufacturers, mainly micro-entities, still produce this type of knife (Oliver Lang, "The big book of knives"). ***

NAGA HIGONOKAMI AOGAMI FOLDING KNIFE, BLACK HANDLE *** "Wedlug ekspertow wojskowych i urzednikow ds. bezpieczenstwa obecnosc Finlandii w NATO wnosi do klubu cos w rodzaju Arktycznej Sparty, swietnie wyszkolona sile, ktora przesunie srodek ciezkosci sojuszu na polnoc" - PRADA BIANCHI ("Foreign Policy"). Gdy wkrotce Szwecja dolaczy do Sojuszu, Rosja bedzie zupelnie wypchnieta na polnocnym-zachodzie z jedynego niezamarzajacego akwenu, z jakim graniczy. A to oznacza strategiczna katastrofe dla Moskwy i cofniecie do czasow przed Piotrem I. Jeszcze w listopadzie 2022 roku Weronika Jozwiak, analityk PISM, zwracala uwage, ze czlonkostwo Finlandii w NATO otwiera przed Polska wielka szanse na wlaczenie panstw Trojmorza do strategicznej wspolpracy z grupa nordycko-baltycka. Powstalby, strategicznie uzasadniony, wielki pas panstw ciagnacych sie od polnocnej flanki Sojuszu az po Chorwacje, a dalej otwarty na Grecje i Turcje. Jak zauwazala: "Stworzenie przeciwwagi dla francusko-niemieckiego tandemu w polityce europejskiej, zwlaszcza w obszarze dzialan zewnetrznych UE, do czego polski rzad dazyl od lat, mogloby stac sie rzeczywistoscia poprzez budowanie koalicji z partnerami nordyckimi i baltyckimi oraz czescia Europy Srodkowej krajow (bez Wegier, ktorych polityka wobec Rosji, Ukrainy i Chin uniemozliwia wspolprace z nimi). Przeszkoda w budowaniu tak szerokiego partnerstwa sa jednak trwajace spory z instytucjami UE" (Piotr Grochmalski, "Polska 13 grudnia na lewo, a Finlandia na prawo", GAZETA POLSKA, 21 lutego 2024). *** "Majac szczegolne nabozenstwo i wielka sympatie dla Blogoslawionej Maryi Dziewicy, odmawiac beda rozaniec kazdego dnia" - SW. EUGENIUSZ DE MAZENOD (Regula OMI, 1818 rok).