Word: ogawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long 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...
...sojourn in the islands. The issei were excited-so much so that a protocol committee felt the need to urge them not to shout organized banzais at the royal motorcade. The nisei, however, were less curious. What about the sansei and yonsei (fourth-generation A.J.A.s)? Says Dennis Ogawa, associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii: "They think it's nice, but a lot of them would rather see Muhammad...
...that Japan now faces a historic turning point." So said Premier Kakuei Tanaka at the opening of the Japanese Diet early this month. He was not exaggerating. Since then, Japan's economic crisis, created by the energy shortage, has only grown worse. As Japan Times Editor Masaru Ogawa brooded editorially, it may turn out that "the Japanese economic giant has only feet of clay." Moreover, the political repercussions threaten to engulf Tanaka himself, and even raise the worrisome specter of a resurgence of Japanese nationalism...