Well, it's officially summer as of the 20th. In Japan, the solstice is called 夏至 (keshi).
I have been learning battou (抜刀) from/with my father-in-law. I only practice once a week at the local community center (which luckily is a 30 second walk from our front drive), so it's been "hard" in the sense that I have still do not have the "pulling blade
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