{"id":1073,"date":"2023-02-16T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:45:46","slug":"tsuba-with-rain-dragon-design-inscribed-name-arichika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Tsuba with rain dragon design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inscribed name: Arichika<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Watanabe Arichika<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early to mid Edo period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considered a type of sword mount or guard, a <em>tsuba<\/em> is usually a round (or occasionally squarish) guard positioned at the end of the grip of bladed Japanese weapons. The carving on the <em>tsuba <\/em>depicts a dragon draped in clouds ascending to the sky, a popular and auspicious motif for success in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watanabe Arichika (1660\u20131742) was a blacksmith from the Sh\u014dnai district who trained under the Tsuruoka blacksmith Sat\u014d Chinkyu as well as Tsuchiya Yasuchika I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inscribed name: Arichika By Watanabe Arichika Early to mid Edo period Donated by the Homma family Considered a&#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-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","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=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}