{"id":1066,"date":"2023-02-16T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:09:43","slug":"unmarked-tsuba-with-dragonfly-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Unmarked <em>tsuba <\/em>with dragonfly design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Hirata Hikoz\u014d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Edo period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Homma Norio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragonflies\u2014sometimes known as <em>kachimushi<\/em>, or \u201cvictory bugs\u201d\u2014are believed to be a symbol of courage. They were prized by warriors as good luck charms, and were often used as design motifs on samurai armour and weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hirata Hikoz\u014d (?\u20131635) was a master craftsperson of the Hosokawa clan, who ruled over the Kumamoto Domain in Higo Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hirata Hikoz\u014d Early Edo period Donated by Homma Norio Dragonflies\u2014sometimes known as kachimushi, or \u201cvictor&#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-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}