{"id":27,"date":"2014-07-02T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"2014-07-02 13:03:00"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/27\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5th Okinawa Token Ichi   Jul. 2, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-1.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 27-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-2.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-2.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 27-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-3.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 27-3.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-4.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/27-4.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 27-4.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<!--\n\n\n\n--> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend that passed, the 5th Okinawa Token Ichi was successfully concluded. More than 100 people visited the event during the 3 days it was held. All of them, seriously interested in the Japanese sword and its fittings. Many familiar faces were seen among the visitors, and I am grateful that people keep coming back.<br \/>On the 3rd day (Sunday), I held a basic lesson on the Japanese sword and its history, and was very happy to see many young people in the room, listening to the information I shared.<\/p>\n<p>Okinawa does not have any sword dealers of its own, and traditionally, doesn&#8217;t share the culture of the Japanese sword, but shows great interest and enthusiasm for the sword and the culture surrounding it. It made my heart warm hearing people say, &#8216;Thank you for organizing this event&#8217;, or seeing the happiness in the eyes of someone who just purchased his first blade. It inspires me to work harder and to make the next event even better.<\/p>\n<p>Though other events may be more profitable for sword dealers, I enjoy spreading enthusiasm among likeminded people, and Okinawa has a special place in my heart. Therefore, this journey of love for the Japanese sword, is something I intend to continue to bring to Okinawa in the future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the weekend that passed, the 5th Okinawa Token Ichi was successfully concluded. More than 100 people visited the event during the 3 days it was held. All of them, seriously interested in the Japanese sword and its fittings. Many familiar faces were seen among the visitors, and I am grateful that people keep coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 5th Okinawa Token Ichi   Jul. 2, 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\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}