{"id":45,"date":"2015-05-24T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"2015-05-24 13:23:00"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/45\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the sword smith Amemiya san   May 24, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/45-1.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/45-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 45-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/45-2.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/45-2.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 45-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/45-3.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/45-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 45-3.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/45-4.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/45-4.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 45-4.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/45-5.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/45-5.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 45-5.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<!--\n\n\n\n--> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On 23 May, I took part in a lesson on how to forge a Kogatana at the forge of Takano Mitsuyuki a sword smith located in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time I tried my hand at this craft, and I enjoyed the experience quite a lot, much due to the kindness and assistance from Amemiya Tosho, Takano Tosho\u2019s disciple. During this single day event, I got to experience Yasurigake (rough filing), Senkezuri (working the metal with a plainer), Uchinobashi (hammering out the metal), Meigiri (signing the blade), Tsuchioki (clay coating) and Yakiire (tempering).<br \/>Though my result was probably quite mediocre compared to Amemiya san\u2019s, at least the experience gave me an insight and appreciation for the skills and hard work of a sword smith. <br \/>I was however very pleased to see the shape of the Sori after quenching my blade and I thought the Hamon was rather pleasing as well.<\/p>\n<p>I shared the day\u2019s lesson and experiences with one other first timer, a medical student, who, after the lesson explained to me that though he was studying medicine, it was his heart\u2019s desire to become a sword smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 May, I took part in a lesson on how to forge a Kogatana at the forge of Takano Mitsuyuki a sword smith located in Tokyo. It was the first time I tried my hand at this craft, and I enjoyed the experience quite a lot, much due to the kindness and assistance from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/45\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons from the sword smith Amemiya san   May 24, 2015<\/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\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}