{"id":5,"date":"2012-09-24T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"2012-09-24 16:24:00"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/5\/","title":{"rendered":"Touken Koza, Swords studies at Touken Matsumoto   Sep. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-1.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 5-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-2.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 5-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-3.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/5-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 5-3.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<!--\n\n\n\n--> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On September 23, Myoga-sensei visited our place in Noda to conduct our monthly &#8216;Touken Kouza&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Five different, and very beautiful &#8216;Meitou&#8217;-blades, from different periods, and with different characteristics were displayed, after which the lesson began with all the attendees in a good mood.  <\/p>\n<p>Myoga-sensei spoke, among other things, of the different aspects of &#8216;nie&#8217;, often taking a student&#8217;s question and with the help of a white board giving a general, but clear explanation. Then, in a &#8216;person to person&#8217; type lesson making sure the answer was more elaborate and informative he explained the finer points. <br \/>This was very appreciated by the people that attended, and a clear sign of the passion that students and teachers share. <\/p>\n<p>A small but fun contest was also held, after which the group sat down for a bite to eat.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very nice evening with a lot of smiles and many great learning experiences, which furthered everyone&#8217;s understanding and enthusiasm for the study of the Japanese sword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, Myoga-sensei visited our place in Noda to conduct our monthly &#8216;Touken Kouza&#8217;. Five different, and very beautiful &#8216;Meitou&#8217;-blades, from different periods, and with different characteristics were displayed, after which the lesson began with all the attendees in a good mood. Myoga-sensei spoke, among other things, of the different aspects of &#8216;nie&#8217;, often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Touken Koza, Swords studies at Touken Matsumoto   Sep. 23<\/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\/5"}],"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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}