Week 13 - Kasho Day
The Japanese have always been very fond of very sharp blades. They’ve spent centuries turning sharp tools of all sorts into functional fine art, and so it’s no surprise that some of the very best hair cutting shears are made in Japan. As a bit of a Japanophile myself, not to mention being a fan of high quality in simple tools (ie; my radio will be very ordinary, but I will prize my favorite hardwood spoon), I’m very pleased to have a set of Kasho shears as the main tools in my arsenal.
Today we had representatives of Kasho come into the school to give us a little class on these shears. One was a Japanese man in a fine, brown suit (and apparently he was supposed to be someone of larger import within the company… an owner maybe? I really don’t know), and the other was… well a character. The Japanese man was washed out after jumping from jet to jet so he didn’t stay for the class, just did the tour of the school, but the “character” stuck around.
I liked the character. I generally DO like “characters.” This one was wearing a black pinstriped suit with pastel-colored fish printed along his shirt, a rockstar-style cowboy hat, tattoos, long hair and facial piercings, and a belt holster holding what looked like 20 sets of shears. He looked like a character right out of this movie I watched this weekend called “Blow Dry.”
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