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This video is the best guide for any Shinsengumi fan who wants to visit historical sites of Shinsengumi. I would love to visit these places when I go to Japan for a holiday. The only thing is there should also be a musum for Okita Souji. Great video,

前川邸って入ることができたんですね。。。。

3:17 It looks like a movie about the samurai’s assassination! That’s cool! 😊

NHKのEテレ試聴していました。 元タカラジェンヌと出演の解説凄くわかりやすかった。備前の刀博物館の外国人学芸員？の方とか出演したり楽しく試聴しました。 3シーズン目も希望しています

Danke!

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Hello Paul. I remember you visiting my dojo in San Jose, CA, some 10 years ago or so; then I attended one of your lectures at San Jose State University a few days later. You were still working on your Master of Arts degree at Berkeley (Heikei Monogatari, I think). Wow! I am very impressed with your level of Japanese. Cheers, -- Guy

平安時代から日本刀は大陸の人間を魅了してました。 明には何十万本も輸出してましたね。

It's a modernTea House tune, played during consideration.

Notice the crossed arms of the first man on the far left.

Thank you for this. I hope to visit the museum next month

Very cool , congratulations on all your hard work with the new book. You have definitely earned all the great things coming your way.

Hi Paul! To bad my credit card is not working! I've tried to order via Amazon, order accepted, but my orderlist is empty and no money went off of my account. And because others like Ebay accept Paypal, etc, and i'm rarely using my creditcard, i'm deleting it. Is there no possibility to pay with Ideal or Paypal? Best regards from the Netherlands!

Hi Paul I am responding to your FB post from 4/16, or at least that is when I saw it. I get your notifications and I am subscribed. One of the main reasons I watch this channel is for the pronunciations. I have read many times the components of a Japanese sword, but I have usually not heard them being spoken.

Thank u for the post,i wonder if theres a movie about Ryoma.

警備員から勉強して、学芸員になったなんて、 本人の努力はもちろん、その努力を認めた博物館もすごい。

damn that look nice

Good list; I have many of them. One of my favorites, though it's old and very out of print, is Inami Hakusui's The Japanese Sword (1948). I read it on interlibrary loan in 1983ish; I couldn't remove it, so I paid $0.05/page to copy it page at a time. I finally got a physical copy around 2000 via abebooks. Honorable mention to Google Translate; I can mostly/kinda read japanese nihonto books with it; on written text not full of sword-specific terms it does pretty well, and not too bad on mei and sword descriptions, often. When it's wrong, it's astoundingly wrong; I wish it had a "just show me the romanji" mode 🙂

When is Part 2 coming out?

Great story about the Shinsengumi, thank you Paul!

元素の概念がない時代に玉鋼を作っていた日本人

Eran grandes gerreros con onor sakamoto Ryoma y nakaoka shyntaro

Possible. They would never have been background checked. And these guys were seen as heroes by satsuma.

Guy on the far right 90% , guy on the far left 75% ... still stuck on the guy in the middle ... he doesn't really have the same characteristics but I could be wrong

What is the backing track used here?

Face shapes seem close enough. Probably?

October 2024? Long wait................ 😅

Excelent intro.Very elegant 100%

Fantastic Paul, I look to getting a copy of your new book. I love your work!

Pre-ordered, I appreciate your dedication!

I will be looking for that book...assuming my pocketbook permits it.

Oh man im trying not to spend money

I was living in SoCal back then. how did I miss this?... face palm!

can't wait to get this book in my hands. Too bad the US market won't get the slip case but I guess getting a hardcover is a good compromise.

Glad you're back! I hope your channel grows!

Great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you for the links in your video Mr. Martin. I have pre-ordered the book, I did that back in February. I just watched the NHK Muramasa video. Very cool video and beyond any of the swords therein, how unbelievably cool was it to get to meet and talk to a descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu? That was the most amazing part for me. The sword from the shrine was very beautiful.

Very interesting ... the last sword I bought has the same tsuba and colour saya as your book SPADE ... cool name too. Going to most likely grab one.

Thanks!

Hi Martin, quick question. Why were yamato ko senjuin swords slender ? Many of them also are o suriage. Ps book pre ordered

I used to have a sword a long time ago, unfortunately, bills and feeding my family came first, and now can't afford another. I so miss my sword., great content Paul

Very impressive, Paul. Thanks for the sneak peek! Edit: the Amazon link for the USA didn't show any results, although the one for the UK did. I also couldn't find it on the USA website by searching for it. Perhaps it's not quite ready yet.

Great to see you back here Paul! I look forward to the book coming out

Thanks!

Arigatou gozaimasu Martin-San

very nice intro