Not the country or the river but rather the Japanese polishing stone. The initial grind, an associated craftsman in Japan had put the blade through, basically had butchered the Shinogi and the Yokote as I wrote in one of our earlier posts. Shin (Kanemasa) is not to blame and we have since then decided to take the blade from his forge in a “pre-Shiage” state. Anyway, Christophe neede to reshape the Shinogi and the Yokote before he is going to be able to progress to the next stage… so, back to Kongo-Do!