This chapter shows the basic way of how to handle swords.
- Wear a white glove or hold 2 handkerchiefs (for both hands).
2. After lightly bow, hold tsuka with a right hand, hold saya with a left-hand pull Saya
- Set down saya on left, prepare sword tool.
- Using the sword tool, push out the mekugi (peg).
- Put mekugi in the hole of tsuka up side down so that mekugi don’t get lost.
- Pull tsuka and habaki (metal just above the Tsuka, gold in the picture below ) and set down on right.
- Hold nakago with a right hand. With left hand, support under the blade with Washi (or handkerchief or tissue paper).
- With the light reflect on the surface of the sword, all the works on the blade can be seen clearly.
To see Hamon, Jigane, Boshi well, move the sword up and down, sideways to reflect the light on the right position.
9. After finish looking at the sword, reverse the process to put it back.
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I was born and raised in Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan, then moved to Kamakura. Now I live in Los Angeles.
Graduated from Meiji University received a degree in literature and curatorship. I hold a curatorship license. Also, I graduated from the Calfornia State University of Northridge received a degree in Economics.
My father owned a manufacturing company related with metal. As his hobby, he had been collecting Japanese swords and other types of Japanese art objects. He was one of the administrators of Nihon Bijutu Token Hozon Kyokai(日本美術刀剣保存協会), that is a sword museum located in Tokyo. One of his friends (Mori Sensei) who was also the main administrator, used to hold Japanese sword study group in his house. I joined his study group.
Mori sensei’s group was very rare and valuable kind because he could bring top quality swords as our study materials because of his position in the museum. The kind of swords we could study with were top quality museum swords. Those are the kind of swords people could only see through the glass display cases. Also, I studied sword with my father since he kept many swords in our house.
This is how I started to get into Japanese sword study.
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Excellent demonstration!! So highly educational and informative!!
Very useful for people handling swords
Domo arigatou gozaimashta sensei
Shitsureishimasu
Sasha desu
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Thank you for saying that. I need it since I can not see the audience.
Yurie
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