{"id":1963,"date":"2025-01-05T01:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:32:51","slug":"japanese-sword-class-january-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/japanese-sword-class-january-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Sword Class  January 4, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3970.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1954 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3970-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3970-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3970.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3977-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1961 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3977-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3977-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3977-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3974-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1962 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3974-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3974-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3974-1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first Japanese sword class of the new year was held at the shop in Noda. It started in 2020 with Nakahara Nobuo sensei as the lecturer. Once a month on a weekend from 5pm for about two hours, participants will appreciate five swords and develop an eye for Japanese swords. Now in its fifth year, I am happy to see that the participants&#8217; discerning eyes have improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Japanese sword class of the new year was held at the shop in Noda. It started in 2020 with Nakahara Nobuo sensei as the lecturer. Once a month on a weekend from 5pm for about two hours, participants will appreciate five swords and develop an eye for Japanese swords. Now in its fifth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/japanese-sword-class-january-4-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Sword Class  January 4, 2025<\/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\/1963"}],"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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}