{"id":1138,"date":"2020-08-12T01:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2020-08-12T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:51:35","slug":"results-of-the-competition-of-the-contemporary-sword-craftsmen-august-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/results-of-the-competition-of-the-contemporary-sword-craftsmen-august-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of the Competition of the Contemporary Sword Craftsmen    August 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/\u5ddd\u4e0a\u3055\u3093\u7d50\u679c\u901a\u77e5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/\u5ddd\u4e0a\u3055\u3093\u7d50\u679c\u901a\u77e5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u5ddd\u4e0a\u3055\u3093\u7d50\u679c\u901a\u77e5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020\u73fe\u4ee3\u5200\u8077\u5c55\uff08\u7814\u78e8\u306e\u90e8\u3001\u5916\u88c5\u306e\u90e8\uff09.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020\u73fe\u4ee3\u5200\u8077\u5c55\uff08\u7814\u78e8\u306e\u90e8\u3001\u5916\u88c5\u306e\u90e8\uff09-150x150.png\" alt=\"2020\u73fe\u4ee3\u5200\u8077\u5c55\uff08\u7814\u78e8\u306e\u90e8\u3001\u5916\u88c5\u306e\u90e8\uff09\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 6 the results were announced of this year&#8217;s competition of contemporary sword\u00a0craftsmen.<br \/>\nOur staff member, Yoichiro Kawakami, placed\u00a06th in the Excellence Award! This was his first serious attempt applying to this competition in the area of sword polishing. In total, there were 49 polished items (Shinogi-tsukuri) excluding Mukansa polishers submitted for this part of the competition.\u00a0Kawakami was placed 14th among\u00a0all the skilled polishers.\u00a0\u00a0The Yushu-sho\/Excellence Award comes after the Toku-sho\/Special Award, but is above the Doryoku-sho\/Effort Award. This was a great opportunity for him to showcase his skills in polishing\u00a0for his more than 20 years of experience.\u00a0 This year, he\u00a0polished a contemporary sword from scratch that was the size of 2-shaku 3-sun 6-bu forged and engraved by Ryujin Taro Minamoto Tadashige.<br \/>\nI was very satisfied with the result. Moving forward, I encourage him to continue to grow his skill and enter the competition\u00a0again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 6 the results were announced of this year&#8217;s competition of contemporary sword\u00a0craftsmen. Our staff member, Yoichiro Kawakami, placed\u00a06th in the Excellence Award! This was his first serious attempt applying to this competition in the area of sword polishing. In total, there were 49 polished items (Shinogi-tsukuri) excluding Mukansa polishers submitted for this part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/results-of-the-competition-of-the-contemporary-sword-craftsmen-august-7-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Results of the Competition of the Contemporary Sword Craftsmen    August 7, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}