This chapter shows basic way of handling sword .
1. Wear a white glove or hold 2 handkerchiefs (for both hands).
2. Bow lightly, then hold tsuka (hilt) with your right hand, hold saya (scabbard) with your left-hand. Pull Saya out.
3. Set down saya on the left. Prepare a small hammer made for the sword.
4. Using a sword tool, push out the mekugi (peg).
5. Pull tsuka and habaki out (metal piece just above the Tsuka, gold piece in the picture below) and set them down on the right.
6. Put mekugi in the hole of Tsuka so that it sticks up. This is to prevent Mekugi to get lost.
7. Hold Nakago (inside the hilt) with your right hand. Support under the blade with Washi ( Japanese rice paper, handkerchief or tissue paper).
8. All the works on the blade should show with the light reflect on the surface of the sword. To see Hamon, Ji-Hada, and Boshi etc, better, 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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