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      <image:title>Shinsa Team - In Memoriam:</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yoshikawa Eiichi 1952-2019: Shinsa team head for many years, director of the NTHK, curator of swords for the Japanese Imperial Household Agency, the Shosoin Imperial Repository and the Seikado Museum collection.  Head of the Yoshikawa school of sword polishing and polisher to the Imperial Household. Mr. Yoshikawa participated in the 1997 shinsa in New York and Los Angeles under his father Yoshikawa Kentaro Sensei.  Since his father passed he headed the NTHK and in addition to regular lectures at the monthly NTHK Kantei meetings he often made presentations at distinguished institutions such as the Seikado Museum and others. In 2017 he was a featured speaker at the Seikado special exhibition; “Perfect Guide to the Japanese Sword.” He himself passed away in late 2019, even as we were preparing for a 2020 Shinsa in San Francisco.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park.</image:caption>
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