Dear all
Details of the apeakers at International Conference on Japanese Arms and Armour, to be held at The Royal Armouries in Leeds, Yorkshire are now released as follows:
SAT 28 Oct
10.00 Clive Sinclaire - Appreciating and Collecting Japanese Swords from a Westerner's Perspective.
11.15 Richard Suran - Echizen Kinai Tsuba
13.45 Leon Kapp - The Art of The Japanese Sword, Aesthetics and Function are Inseperable.
16.00 - Takaiwa Setsuo - Sword Polishing
SUNDAY 28 OCT
10.00 - Victor Harris - The Japanese Aesthetic
11.15 - Yoshihara Yoshindo - The Process and Features of Japanese Swordmaking, the Jigane and Hamon
13.45 - Graham Curtis - Characteristic Kitae in the context of Kantei
14.45 - Matsunaga Hirokichi - The History of Kodugu and the charateristics of schools and styles
16.00 - Ogasawara Nobuo - Masamune
MONDAY30 OCT
Hands on swords of the collection.
For further details e-mail Jon Copley at
jon.copley@.... We will also have them on our to-ken society web site as soon as possible.
Regards
Clive Sinclaire
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