Turning Point 転換期
YUKAWA, Yasha swordsmith story 3
Turning Point
Yukawa swordsmith seemed to have so many ups and downs in his youth. From the age of 16, he spent his first seven years working as an artist in Tokyo. His work was mainly to draw pictures on the walls of restaurants and clubs.
For two years, he returned to Stockholm and worked in music. Then, he came back to Tokyo again, where he tried to work in music, such as composing, but it did not work out well. After all, he became homesick and spent five years as a subsistence farmer in the Swedish countryside.
It was around the time he restarted his artistic activities from a self-sufficient lifestyle that Matsuba swordsmith, who became his mentor later, contacted his father looking for Swedish steel. After being consulted by his father, Yukawa found the steel and arranged it for Matsuba swordsmith.
Matsuba swordsmith visited Sweden every year since then. When Matsuba swordsmith attended his father's second wedding, Matsuba swordsmith offered Yukawa to make a sword with him. It might be because he was drunk at the wedding but Yukawa didn't accept his invitation at that time.
After that, Yukawa continued to live a self-sufficient life in the countryside for seven years, and he was already 40 years old.
転換期
湯川刀匠の青春時代はある意味波瀾万丈だったかもしれません。16歳から最初の７年間は、東京でアーテｲストとして働いたそうです。その仕事の内容は、レストランやクラブなどの壁に絵を描くのが主でした。
そして２年間ストックホルムに戻り、音楽関連の仕事に携わりました。再び東京に戻り作曲など音楽の仕事にトライしましたが上手くいきませんでした。その後ホームシックにもなり、スウェーデンの片田舎で自給自足の農家として5年ほど生活を送ることになりました。
後の師匠となる松葉刀匠がスウェーデン鋼を探していて父親にコンタクトしたのが、自給自足生活からアーテｲスト活動を再始動していた頃でした。父親から相談を受けた夜叉は、鋼を探し出し松葉刀匠にアレンジしました。
そして、毎年訪問する松葉刀匠が父親の２度目の結婚式に参列したときでした。酔いもあってか松葉刀匠が、一緒に刀を作ろうといってくれたのですが、その時にはその誘いには乗らず、その後も引き続き７年間田舎で自給自足生活を送り、すでに４０歳になった頃でした。