{"id":2257,"date":"2025-12-29T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:22:10","slug":"the-18th-nishikasai-token-ichi-november-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/the-18th-nishikasai-token-ichi-november-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The 18th Nishikasai Token Ichi November 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5214.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5214-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5214-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5214.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5216.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5216-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5216-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5216.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5217.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5217-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5217-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5217.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 18th Nishi-Kasai Token Ichi, our final event of this year, was held at our Tokyo Nishi-Kasai store for five days starting Wednesday, December 24th. Though I was concerned about number of visitors given the year-end timing, the event concluded successfully. Particularly, perhaps due to our enhanced purchasing efforts, buyback reached an all-time high, including visitors from distant locations. It was a fulfilling five days where we expressed our gratitude to everyone who supported us this year and requested their continued patronage next year. After the event concluded, we had a year-end gathering with a sword-smith and a master of tsukamaki, wishing for another wonderful year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18th Nishi-Kasai Token Ichi, our final event of this year, was held at our Tokyo Nishi-Kasai store for five days starting Wednesday, December 24th. Though I was concerned about number of visitors given the year-end timing, the event concluded successfully. Particularly, perhaps due to our enhanced purchasing efforts, buyback reached an all-time high, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/the-18th-nishikasai-token-ichi-november-29-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 18th Nishikasai Token Ichi November 29, 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\/2257"}],"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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}