{"id":453,"date":"2017-06-11T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2017-06-11T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T14:19:57","slug":"the-sapporo-bjk-auction-june-7th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/the-sapporo-bjk-auction-june-7th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sapporo BJK Auction   June 7th, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bjk-300x225.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/bjk-300x225-150x150.png\" alt=\"bjk-300x225\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was invited to participate as an auctioneer for the Sapporo BJK Auction on June 7th for their Sword and sword fitting section.<br \/>\nInitially, the BJK Auction mainly auctioned brand items and jewellery, however three years ago they started to also work with swords and sword fittings.<br \/>\nThe owner of the Auction requested my help to support their Sword and Sword fittings auctions. I offered to help expand the sword trading business in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan.<br \/>\nThere were more than hundred auctioned items during my time making for a very successful event.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great experience and hope to participate in the next November Auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to participate as an auctioneer for the Sapporo BJK Auction on June 7th for their Sword and sword fitting section. Initially, the BJK Auction mainly auctioned brand items and jewellery, however three years ago they started to also work with swords and sword fittings. The owner of the Auction requested my help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/the-sapporo-bjk-auction-june-7th-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sapporo BJK Auction   June 7th, 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\/453"}],"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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}