{"id":1064,"date":"2023-02-16T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:07:23","slug":"unmarked-menuki-with-a-chinese-lion-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Unmarked <em>menuki<\/em>, with a Chinese lion design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edo period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Watanabe Riemon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>menuki <\/em>is a decorative metal ornament on the hilt of the katana, typically tucked under the silk wrappings of the grip to conceal a nail. This menuki depicts two lions running side by side, gazing at each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Karashishi <\/em>(Chinese lions) are considered signature designs for sword fittings by the Got\u014d family, blacksmiths in Kyoto who served the Ashikaga clan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo period Donated by Watanabe Riemon A menuki is a decorative metal ornament on the hilt of the katana, typic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}