Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology is pleased to invite you for the events accompanying the exhibition Nihontō. Swords from Japan from the collection of the Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum.

23 November 2019

11:00–11:30 am Lecture by Shuichi Shirahige, Director of the Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum, The Philosophical System Underlying the Way of the Sword
11:30–12:00 am Lecture by Kenji Sugihara, curator at the Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum, The History of the Japanese Sword
12:00–12:30 pm Lecture by Yoshihiro Kubo, The Traditional tatara Steel Smelting Process
12:30–1:15 pm Lecture by Yusuke Ando, Sword Crafting Process
3:00–5:00 pm Sword crafting demonstration by Sadanao Mikami (presenter), Yoshihiro Kubo, Yusuke Ando, and Jun Nishimura
5:00 pm Sword hardening demonstration by Sadanao Mikami

24 November 2019

10:30–11:15 am Sword polishing demonstration and lecture by Tomonobu Yokoyama, The Beauty of the Blade
11:15–12:00 am Sword mounting demonstration and lecture by Ko Katayama, The Aesthetics of Sword Mountings
12:00–12:45 pm The rules, ceremony, and noteworthy elements in sword viewing
12:45–1:15 pm Lecture by Sadanao Mikami, The Goals of Modern Day Swordsmiths
3:00–5:00 pm Sword crafting demonstration by Sadanao Mikami (presenter), Yoshihiro Kubo, Yusuke Ando, and Jun Nishimura
5:00 pm Sword hardening demonstration by Yoshihiro Kubo