From Nov. 30 to Dec. 5, the Main Building Art Gallery of the Nihombashi Takashimaya Shopping Center will host the “Kirameku” (“Sparkle”) sword exhibition o
The number of people specialising in traditional crafts has declined dramatically in Japan over the years, prompting real concerns about the future of maintaining the country’s long-storied cultural traditions. So when one swordsmith in Japan recently announced on Twitter that they were looking to hand down generations of knowledge to a hard-working…