{"id":1161,"date":"2020-08-25T00:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2020-08-25T00:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:58:21","slug":"the-third-koriyama-token-ichi%e3%80%80%e3%80%80-august-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/the-third-koriyama-token-ichi%e3%80%80%e3%80%80-august-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Koriyama Token Ichi\u3000\u3000 August 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"koori2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"koori1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"koori3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"koori5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/koori4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"koori4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Third Koriyama Touken Ichi was held from August 21st for three days at the &#8220;Big Palette Fukushima&#8221; complex convention facility in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. It was originally scheduled for April, but postponed until August during the hot summer because of the threat of the Corona-virus.\u00a0In order to avoid the crowded situation, we doubled the size of the venue and were sure to wear face masks and used disinfectants to clean our hands and help prevent the spread of infection.\u00a0I think all the visitors could appreciate the art of the beautiful swords and fittings with peace of mind of being safe.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0performance\u00a0of the event was more than I had\u00a0expected. We achieved a number of sales and I was busy every minute. There were many sword enthusiasts\u00a0who visited and purchased items. This was due to the success of the local advertisements\u00a0of two big newspapers that came to interview me. I think what helped the\u00a0event to be successful for the three days was the people I know increased and maybe the local enthusiasts came to trust us in this third event in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth Koriyama Touken Ichi is scheduled to be held for three days from Friday, December 25th this year at the same venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third Koriyama Touken Ichi was held from August 21st for three days at the &#8220;Big Palette Fukushima&#8221; complex convention facility in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. It was originally scheduled for April, but postponed until August during the hot summer because of the threat of the Corona-virus.\u00a0In order to avoid the crowded situation, we doubled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/the-third-koriyama-token-ichi%e3%80%80%e3%80%80-august-24-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Third Koriyama Token Ichi\u3000\u3000 August 24, 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\/1161"}],"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=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}