Month: September 2015

This weekend, we hosted the 4th monthly sword appreciation course and asked Myoga sensei to teach it. The amount of people that took part in the lecture slightly challenged our capacity, but we were delighted to see a lot of enthusiasts partake.

Many of the participants were beginners, but thanks to Myoga sensei’s pedagogical explanations, they were able to appreciate the 5 Juyo Token around which the lesson was focused.
After the lecture, we had some Bento and enjoyed talking with each other.

The Juyo Token swords we studied were;
1.Katana Mumei, but attributed to the Aoe tradition
2.Katana Mumei, but attributed to the Shizu tradition
3.Katana Mumei, but attributed to Motomitsu from Bizen
4.Katana by Tsuneie made in mid Muromachi period
5.Tanto the Aoe traditon

The other day, the organizing group of the Dai Token Ichi 2015, had an initial proofreading of the coming catalog for the event. This is an annual task and we all worked until the late evening.

11 members gathered on that day, both younger and older, to partake in the job at hand. It is difficult to coordinate everyone’s schedule to match so that we all can gather at the same time.
This is the kind of effort that is necessarily to make the venue a successful one.

This year’s event will take place from Nov. 20th to 22nd at the same location as we have used during the previous years.