{"id":50,"date":"2015-06-30T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"2015-06-30 13:56:00"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/50\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7th Okinawa Token Ichi   Jun. 30, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/50-1.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/50-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 50-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/50-2.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/50-2.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 50-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/50-3.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/50-3.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 50-3.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/50-4.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/50-4.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 50-4.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/img\/50-5.jpg\" class=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/diarypro\/data\/upfile\/50-5.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30eb 50-5.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t<!--\n\n\n\n--> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>From the 26th to the 28th of June, we hosted the 7th Okiniawa Token Ichi, in Naha. We host this event twice a year, and this was the 4th consecutive year for us. <\/p>\n<p>I was very happy to see that once again we had more visitors than the previous event and that so many look forward to this weekend with great anticipation. <br \/>Before opening on the 3rd day, I gave a small beginners level lecture, on how to correctly handle the sword when evaluating it, or when it is being cleaned or inspected. I was happy to find that the number of people attending it had also grown since last year.<br \/>The event was an overall success both from a cultural and business perspective, and I feel very grateful to all the people that visited us.<\/p>\n<p>I was also pleasantly surprised at the knowledge of the \u2018Saniwa\u2019 girls, (enthusiasts of the \u2018T\u014dken Ranbu\u2019  lit. &#8220;Wild Swords Dance&#8221;) that visited the event, and I think their enthusiasm and insights may be important for the future impact on, and the interest in the history and craftsmanship of, the Japanese sword. I am very happy to have spent time with these enthusiasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 26th to the 28th of June, we hosted the 7th Okiniawa Token Ichi, in Naha. We host this event twice a year, and this was the 4th consecutive year for us. I was very happy to see that once again we had more visitors than the previous event and that so many look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 7th Okinawa Token Ichi   Jun. 30, 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\/50"}],"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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}