{"id":2513,"date":"2026-11-08T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2026-11-08T06:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T06:02:58","slug":"an-interview-with-shibahara-san%e3%80%80november-82026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/11\/08\/an-interview-with-shibahara-san%e3%80%80november-82026\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Shibahara-san\u3000 November 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001-1024x864.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Image_20261108_0001.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">I recently had the opportunity to interview Shibahara-san, former Executive Managing Director of the NBTHK (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords), for <em>Tokenkai<\/em>, the official magazine of the All Japan Sword Traders Association.\u3000\u3000Throughout the interview, I could clearly sense his deep love for Japanese swords and the great satisfaction he felt from having devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Japanese sword community over the past 15 years.\u3000\u3000I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Shibahara-san for his dedicated service and for bringing the NBTHK and our sword traders&#8217; association closer together, working with us in a spirit of unity and cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to interview Shibahara-san, former Executive Managing Director of the NBTHK (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords), for Tokenkai, the official magazine of the All Japan Sword Traders Association.\u3000\u3000Throughout the interview, I could clearly sense his deep love for Japanese swords and the great satisfaction he felt from having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2026\/11\/08\/an-interview-with-shibahara-san%e3%80%80november-82026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Interview with Shibahara-san\u3000 November 8, 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\/2513"}],"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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}