I'm on a quest to find the family of the man who made my great grandfather's Samurai Sword.
A good first step is to find one of Japan's best swordsmiths... but that was not my plan. Finding Gassan was a gift from my new friends in Asuka Village and Sakura City near Nara.
More about how this came to be... coming soon.
I rushed back from my pilgrimage to Hiroshima to meet one of Japan's National Living Treasures:
I met Gassan Sadatoshi at his home and sword making studio in Sakura City, not far from Nara and discovered his philosophical world view: "Swords are not for fighting."
In the short documentary above, it makes sense to pair Gassan with my memories of the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, I met him less than 24 hours after walking across Little Boy's ground zero, the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.
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