{"id":2336,"date":"2026-03-29T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:09:10","slug":"the-19th-nishikasai-token-ichi-march-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/the-19th-nishikasai-token-ichi-march-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The 19th Nishikasai Token Ichi   March 29, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u7b2c19\u56de\u897f\u845b\u897f\u5200\u5263\u5e02.jpeg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5565.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5565-300x191.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5565-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5565.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5567.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5567-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5567-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5567.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5564.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2332 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5564-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5564-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5564.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"140\">We held the 19th Nishikasai Token Ichi at our Tokyo Nishikasai shop for five days starting Wednesday, March 25.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"142\" data-end=\"448\">In addition to our regular customers, we were pleased to welcome many first-time visitors. This time, however, the weekend coincided with \u201cKatanaza,\u201d one of the largest sword fairs in western Japan held at Osaka Castle, so we felt that the number of visitors over the weekend was somewhat lower than usual.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"594\">On the other hand, this gave us the opportunity to spend more time speaking in depth with each customer who visited, which we truly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"701\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">We will continue to do our very best in the circumstances we are given, without ever becoming complacent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We held the 19th Nishikasai Token Ichi at our Tokyo Nishikasai shop for five days starting Wednesday, March 25. In addition to our regular customers, we were pleased to welcome many first-time visitors. This time, however, the weekend coincided with \u201cKatanaza,\u201d one of the largest sword fairs in western Japan held at Osaka Castle, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/the-19th-nishikasai-token-ichi-march-29-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 19th Nishikasai Token Ichi   March 29, 2026<\/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\/2336"}],"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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}