Staurday, Aug. 5 NCJSC Token Kai

[Nihonto Chicken]

Dropped by the NCJSC Token Kai today, gratified to see a round up of the usual suspects.    A special call out to to that old pirate, Roger Davis, who in his elderly years is now mellowing out and easing off on those old widder wimmen, no more flaming splits under the fingernails to extract their deceased veteran husbands' WWII bring back swords.   

 

I didn't find again what hooked me a year ago (when I had no funds, then again only marginally better this year), a hirazukuri wak with hada like that pictured below:

 

 

I find it to be a personal affront that the the seller a year ago didn't hold this item for me to buy this year, even though I didn't express any really honest interest ($$$) at the time.    Saw some sword pretenders this year that were in the general ballpark, but no cigar (oops, mixed metaphors?).  Anyway, with no purchase this time, and I think I heard my wallet breathe a sigh of relief as I exited the venue (or maybe I just passed some gas, difficult to determine nowadays at my advanced age).  Hope that other attendees bought (or sold!) what they were desiring to do.  See y'all (hopefully!) next year, take care, good fortune!

 

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