Month: June 2023

This year was the 9th vacation trip with my staff and business partners. Our yearly vacation is held every year in June, which is the fiscal year end for our company, so I can show my gratitude for the current year and help to encourage our efforts for the next year. For the past three years, we have visited Okinawa due to the Corona crisis and the difficulties of international travel. However this year, for the first time in a while, we went overseas. We visited Da Nang, Vietnam, which was surprisingly inexpensive even if you stay in a luxury hotel. So I was able to thoroughly enjoy the hotel stay, Vietnamese food, and sightseeing at the local ruins. We will do our best to successfully close this year and to ensure the continued satisfaction for our customers next year!

The 8th Nishikasai Token Ichi was held at the Nishikasai shop in Tokyo for 5 days starting from June 7th. Although the rainy season has started in Japan, many customers visited the shop and it was a success. This time we exhibited attractive armor and koshirae of both yari and naginata. They made a good atmosphere for selling and our performance was the best ever.  I want to say thank you very much to all the visitors, business partners, and to our staff. Token Matsumoto will continue to do our best to be a sword shop customers desire to visit. We hope you will stop by and see us.

On June 3rd, the annual Noda kai Sword Auction was held at Business Hotel Noda. We were worried about the effects of the heavy rain that had continued since the day before, but we were happy to see 55 sword dealers gathered at the event. Many of them exhibited attractive swords and fittings for the auction. The lively auction continued all day long from the morning, until it ended safely in the evening at 5pm. After the end of the auction, I was exhausted but was also filled with a feeling of satisfaction that reenergized me after receiving positive words of appreciation from the participants. Despite the severe weather and current decrease of items overall, this auction event had almost record high performance. This time, we held a banquet at the hotel the day before and invited a magician for entertainment. Everyone seemed to be fascinated by the magic tricks that we were able to see up close and in person. It was a very nice event and a great way to show my appreciation to the Noda Kai Sword Auction participants.