Word: morihiro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text on its subject in English. But even for the non-expert the show is of overwhelming beauty...
...Kunimune, a late 13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...
Some casualties of the Viet Nam War will never surface in the statistics. One of them is Morihiro Matsuda, a Korean who now lives in Japan. Four years ago, Matsuda put his life savings into $63,800 worth of advertising in five U.S. and British newspapers. His message: a tortuous 12,325-word essay arguing that peace in Viet Nam can be achieved only if the U.S. and the Communists make mutual concessions. The U.S., he said, should lay out as much as $10 billion, if necessary, to construct a "paradise" for Vietnamese victims of the war. Today Matsuda...