{"id":25,"date":"2014-05-02T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"2014-05-02 00:55:00"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/25\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprenticeship and refinement   Apr. 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/25-1.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 25-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<!--\n\n\n\n--> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Apr. 27th, I finished my first 3years of apprenticeship under the highly regarded Watanabe Taeko Sensei.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a pleasure to study with her and I look forward to the next year of her lessons.<\/p>\n<p>On graduation day, she gave us some advice to ponder.<br \/>She said that in order to grow, we have to cultivate a deep sense of refinement. This means, that we have to become more refined in person to be able to recognize truly refined craftsmanship. It is a never ending process full of constant attention to detail and character that will eventually bare fruit, if it is conducted in the proper way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Apr. 27th, I finished my first 3years of apprenticeship under the highly regarded Watanabe Taeko Sensei. It has been a pleasure to study with her and I look forward to the next year of her lessons. On graduation day, she gave us some advice to ponder.She said that in order to grow, we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2014\/05\/02\/25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apprenticeship and refinement   Apr. 27, 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}