The theme of the 6th Token Lecture was sword polishing.
As the same as last year, the lecturer was the polisher named Kawakami Yoichiro.
He explained how to polish and the process of using sharpening stones “toishi’. He used seven different sharpening stones appropriate for various conditions of the blade.
The students who participated enjoyed his lecture and asked many questions.
During the second half of the class was about sword appreciation.
Udagawa Sensei carefully explained about kataochi-gunome hamon of Kanemitsu, Sudareba-hamon by Yoshimichi, and Imozuru of Satsuma blades.
The students all appeared to be satisfied with the explanations and class.