Tokubetsu Juyo Exhibition

[BIG]

25 th Shinsa result tachi..

 

http://www.touken-matsumoto.jp/eng/blog/

[Pete Klein]

Thanks for the link.  I am so happy for Matsumoto san as he is such a great guy and one of the nicest gentlemen I've ever met.  I had the pleasure of meeting him last year at the San Francisco Token Kai.  No pretense and very willing to help.  I laughed when I read his line about 'finding many more'!  I hope you do!!!

[Wim V]

For your information: the list of the newly designated Tokubetsu Juyo items in the 25th shinsa was published on the NBTHK website today. See pdf document in attachment.

 

Apparently:

343 swords were submitted, of which 70 passed;

19 koshirae were submitted, of which 3 passed;

42 tosogu were submitted, of which 4 passed.

 

As usual the names are quite impressive: Gojo, Awataguchi, Rai Kunitoshi, Yukimitsu, Masamune, Sadamune, Go, several ko-Bizen, Ichimonji, Nagamitsu, Kagemasa, Chikakage, Motoshige, Chogi, Aoe, Samonji, and even a Takei Naotane (to name only a few).

 

Should be a very nice exhibition if you are able to attend :-)

H30tokuzyuulist.pdf

[Guido]

The North Americans did really well:

 

katana Takagi Sadamune – Darcy Brockbank
katana Shizu – Ted Tenold
naginata-naoshi Ichimonji – Mike Yamasaki
daishō-koshirae - Darcy Brockbank

[CSM101]

My question is: What do I have to do to get a catalogue?

 

 

Uwe G.

[Gakusee]

A super strong session. As always, Darcy is on top of it all:

 

https://yuhindo.com/ha/tokubetsu-juyo-2018-results/

[Wim V]

Uwe,

 

I guess you will have to have a bit of patience before the Tokubetsu Juyo Zufu of the 25th shinsa will be published.  But as soon as it is published I suppose you should be able to order it from the NBTHK (eventually by using a proxy service if you are not fluent in Japanese).

 

For example: the TokuJu Zufu's of shinsa 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 are still available at the NBTHK, please take a look at this link: https://www.touken.or.jp/shop/.  However, they are not cheap in my opinion, but if you really want them there is a way .

 

Best,

 

Wim

[BIG]

May be a sign on the wall Naotane Katana passed Tokuju. Shinshinto is coming up..

 

Best