{"id":393,"date":"2017-02-22T01:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-02-22T01:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:47:57","slug":"japanese-sword-class-invited-guest-ozawa-shigenori-swordsmith-february-19-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/japanese-sword-class-invited-guest-ozawa-shigenori-swordsmith-february-19-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Sword Class \/ Invited Guest, Ozawa Shigenori Swordsmith   February 19, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/013-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"013\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/018-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"018\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/021-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"021\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ozawa1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ozawa1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ozawa1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ozawa2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ozawa2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ozawa2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">This month&#8217;s Japanese Sword Class, we invited Mr. Shigenori Ozawa living in Kanagawa Prefecture and we heard his lecture on how to make Japanese swords.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">This was the third time for Mr. Ozawa to participate in the class so he was used to the atmosphere. Based on his experience, he explained about the Hamon relating to the cutting edge and the temperature and also the relationship with the forging and the grain features in the blade.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">There were many questions being asked by all the students. We had a great time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">He won the Nyusen prize at the Omamorigatana Exhibit Competition last year on the tanto ordered by me. On this occasion, he delivered it to me and explained about the tanto.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">I wish for his continued success as a swordsmith.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Japanese Sword Class, we invited Mr. Shigenori Ozawa living in Kanagawa Prefecture and we heard his lecture on how to make Japanese swords.\u00a0 \u00a0 This was the third time for Mr. Ozawa to participate in the class so he was used to the atmosphere. Based on his experience, he explained about the Hamon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/japanese-sword-class-invited-guest-ozawa-shigenori-swordsmith-february-19-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Sword Class \/ Invited Guest, Ozawa Shigenori Swordsmith   February 19, 2017<\/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\/393"}],"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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}