2016 Japanese Sword Show In Minneapolis , Mn Oct. 21, 22, 23

[lklahn]

        

                       “The Arts and Arms of the Samurai”

Japanese Sword Show

October 21,22,23 - 2016

 

The Midwest Token Kenkyu Kai, announces the Minneapolis, Minnesota Annual Arts and Arms of the Samurai Japanese Sword Show on October 21, 22 and 23rd 2016. The event will be held at the newly renovated Crown Plaza Hotel and Suites Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport - Mall of America,          3 Appletree Square (I - 494 & 34th Avenue South)  Bloomington, MN 55425

Main Hotel Number in Minneapolis: 1-952-854-9000 Toll Free: 1-800-227-6963

 

 

The event will promote the Arts and Arms of the Samurai, featuring displays of Japanese Samurai swords, traditional Japanese pottery, calligraphy, armor, and other related items. In addition to the displays, there will be lectures and demonstrations of traditional arts and crafts.

Sales Room:

There is a 5000 sq foot sales room where national and international vendors will be selling swords, fittings, armor, Japanese antiques, calligraphy, books, and like items. Sales table reservations can be made by contacting the individual below. There are 90 - 6 foot sales tables available. Table rates are $150/table with one pass. Call or Email for special rates on 3 or more tables. Dealers are asked to exhibit primarily (80%) Japanese Swords and related items.  No modern firearms. (Nothing that can chamber a cartridge) No live ordinance.

Admission

General Admission to the sales room is $10.00 per day.  3 day pass is $25.00

Exhibits:

There will be several hands-on displays of swords including a room featuring the highest quality antique swords.

Promotion of Event:

This event will be advertised in major US cities, and in the regional newsletters and press releases of collecting clubs and societies sharing common interests. The event will be heavily advertised in all major local media and to Military and Antique Arms Collecting groups throughout the US.

Show Hours:

Thursday – Dealer set-up – 5 pm – 11 pm. Friday - Dealer set-up 7 am – 9 am. Show Hours: 9 am to  9 pm. Saturday - Dealer set up 8 am - 9 am. Show Hours: 9 am to 9 pm. Sunday - Show Hours: 9 am to 3 pm

 

Hotel Info:

Toll free reservations: (1-952-854-9000) Toll Free: 1-800-227-6963. The show receives a special room rate of $99/ night single or double occupancy. In order to get this special room rate you must reserve your room no later than 30 days (September 21) prior to the show. When calling in use group code - MTK

 

For Further Information, Table reservations/details contact:                                                                Larry Klahn, (lklahn@aol.com) 123 6^th St. South,  La Crosse, WI 54601 PH:(608-784-9900)

Make all Checks payable to: Larry Klahn.

More information is available online at: www.threeriversmartialarts.com                            

 

Click on the 2016 Minneapolis Sword Show Tab

[Stephen]

There are still tables available. Reserve today!

“The Arts and Arms of the Samurai”
Japanese Sword Show 
October 21,22,23 - 2016

The Midwest Token Kenkyu Kai, announces the Minneapolis, Minnesota Annual Arts and Arms of the Samurai Japanese Sword Show on October 21, 22 and 23rd 2016. The event will be held at the newly renovated Crown Plaza Hotel and Suites Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport - Mall of America, 3 Appletree Square (I - 494 & 34th Avenue South) Bloomington, MN 55425
Main Hotel Number in Minneapolis: 1-952-854-9000 Toll Free: 1-800-227-6963

Sales Room:
There is a 5000 sq foot sales room where national and international vendors will be selling swords, fittings, armor, Japanese antiques, calligraphy, books, and like items. Sales table reservations can be made by contacting the individual below. There are 90 - 6 foot sales tables available. Table rates are $150/table with one pass. Call or Email for special rates on 3 or more tables. Dealers are asked to exhibit primarily (80%) Japanese Swords and related items. No modern firearms. (Nothing that can chamber a cartridge) No live ordinance.
Admission 
General Admission to the sales room is $10.00 per day. 3 day pass is $25.00

For Further Information, Table reservations/details contact:
Larry Klahn, (lklahn@aol.com) 123 6th St. South, La Crosse, WI 54601 PH:(608-784-9900) 
Make all Checks payable to: Larry Klahn. 
Information is available online at: www.threeriversmartialarts.com Click on the 2016 Minneapolis Sword Show Tab

 

[Grey Doffin]

I will be there, right inside the front door I believe.  Since I can drive to this show I will be bringing 30 to 40 swords, all my kodogu, and I can haul any book you'd like to see also.  Let me know if there's something on my site that looks interesting.

Cheers,  Grey

[SwordGuyJoe]

I'll be there as well, sat next to Bowen in the corner on timeout for over valuing gendaito, and thinking about what we've done.

[Stephen]

Sad i might not be able make it.

[SwordGuyJoe]

Oh bummer. Chris is going to give a presentation on gendai junk with his and my blades mixed together. It should be great!

[SwordGuyJoe]

Who all will be there? Chris and I will be putting 15 blades together focused on the Kasama Lineage and "The Three Birds" (Okimasa, Shigemasa, and Toshihiro/Yasuhiro).

 

Edit to add: Chris will also be giving a presentation on them.

[Derek]

I will be there on Saturday.

[SwordGuyJoe]

Looking forward to meeting you in person!

[Stephen]

             

[brannow]

Cant wait!  Hope to see everyone there!

[dirk marshall]

I will be there

[Mark S.]

I know it's early... but don't leave those of us who can't be there in suspense! How is the show? It's OK to make us jealous!

[Ron STL]

Unfortunately, I'm unable to make the show this go-around. However, several of the Missouri boys are driving up for it. Wish I could join them, but...

Ron STL

[Derek]

A huge thank you to Joe and Chris, who had a fantastic display of Gendaito today.  I am a koto guy, but they gave me a great hands-on overview with 20 blades.  Well done gentlemen!

[SwordGuyJoe]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Derek and it was good to meet you in person.

[SwordGuyJoe]

Here's a pic of the display table. Fifteen swords were on display from Miyaguchi ikkansai shigetoshi (1), Morioka Masayoshi (1), Kasama Shigetsugu (3), Tsukamoto Okimasa (4), Sakai Shigemasa (3), and Miyaguchi Toshihiro/Yasuhiro (3).
 

 

[Stephen]

did it for you Joey

 

sure sorry i missed this one

[SwordGuyJoe]

Thanks Bud!

[Curran]

+1

I regret missing that display.

[Mark]

Chris and Joe's lecture was interesting. I learned a lot about the background and interactions of the smiths before and during WWII, thanks to both of you, great presentation

[seattle1]

Hello:

 I know I am little slow off the mark, but here follow a few observations on the Minneapolis show this last weekend.

 I would like to start with thanks to Larry Klahn for organizing the show and his friendly and helpful hosting for all of us there. With his recovery from Lyme disease and a horrific reaction from a cortisone injection leading to 30 days of hospitalization - it was darn good just to see you Larry! The show was well advertised and the room nicely set up and the tables were pretty well occupied. I understand they would all have been occupied but for an unfortunate death in the family for one holder of 10 tables, and the cancellation of a couple of others at the last minute did effect the dealer show up.

 Lots of old friends and some new ones too had arrived from pretty well all over. Andy Quirt with some first class swords and very nice iron tsuba (as well as a cord wood sized pile of empty used tsuba boxes at 10 bucks each) was there as well as Grey Doffin with tsuba, swords and books, as well as Mark Jones who organizes the very popular Chicago show, a must on the fixture card for 2017. I should also mention that at every show Grey does a presentation to the interested on sword etiquette; it is very useful to newbies and could be a sword saver for the blades a new collector might go on to handle, to say nothing of miscellaneous fingers and the like. Just to mention a few others there was Merlin David with his terrific offerings of about every samurai video under the sun; Saul and Betty Ploplys, Saul being a stalwart in KTK Convention organizing; Joe Ronney who could tell many tales of the golden motel buying days, now long gone; Eric the tsuba guy from New York with two nice groups of tsuba, really good iron to be had on the table and both arms covered with terrific tsuba tattoos, those not for sale I presume; Howard Sloan and Don Whitehead from St. Louis; Cole Cantrell from California; Tony Funabashi from Tokyo characteristically catching up on his sleep from that long flight; Bob Schleimmer from Chicago with stuff that shows how successful Ebay roulette can sometimes be. Bob got one of the nice sleepers in the show, a mid Muromachi Bizen Norimitsu which, when I saw it, was dripping with occluding oil, but when Bob saw it was cleaned up, wow! There were lots of other folks too and I heard few complaints except that Larry's advertising didn't materialize in a large door crowd. I should also mention a good cutting display put on by Robert Steele and his students in the Seiryukan Dojo. We have all seen a number tatami slicing exhibitions but his was preceded with an interesting background lecture. One seasoned fellow at the show moved well away from where an arc of a cutting sword not properly secured by its mekugi might skewer him, having seen that happen a few times he said, at least the flying blade part. Fortunately that didn't happen.

 The highlight of the show  for me was the display of the Miyaguchi Ikkansai Shigetoshi lineage of smiths mentioned here in earlier posts and put on by Joe Kraninger with the help of Chris Bowen. The quality, the continuity shown and the comments made by Joe and Chris were extremely worthwhile. Joe has been collecting about ten years and has that paid off! Chris was able to talk for 10 or 15 without notes about the blades and the complex interrelationships between them. We are still waiting for that book Chris!

 Just two last observations: the first is my regret that shows have to struggle so hard to get established, as without shows what more efficient venue would  there be for dealers to meet and hopefully educate new collectors, to sell and to buy (!), and of course shuffle merchandise among themselves to optimize their stock ?; and secondly we sometimes bemoan "where are the new collectors?". That complaint has always been so but they pop up here and there when the passion strikes as it often does the results can be impressive. At first they know nothing, but for some after a few years we get the visual and intellectual treat we saw with Joe's display.

 Arnold F.

[BIG]

P I C s please !!

 

Best Regards

[Jussi Ekholm]

Sounds like it was an amazing show.

[Grey Doffin]

I had a great time at the show (except for one memorable hand of poker).  Larry and his crew did a bang up job of putting on the show and I heard talk that he hopes to make it an annual event.  Hope so.

Grey