Word: swordsmiths
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes. Meanwhile-the Sword! A precious blade, short and strong, forged by the Imperial Swordsmith, Sadakatsu Gassan, it was presented to the newborn Crown Prince, not by his father direct-for the Emperor of Japan acts always through intermediaries-but by proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor's Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they...
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