{"id":1097,"date":"2023-02-16T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2023-03-01T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:23:36","slug":"kozuka-depicting-a-horse-race-at-kamo-no-inscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"<em>Kozuka <\/em>depicting a horse race at Kamo. No inscription."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mid-Edo period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donated by Homma Norio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Variously known as a \u201cutility knife\u201d or \u201ccompanion knife,\u201d a kozuka is part of a sword mounting, typically kept in the scabbard of a katana. A matching hairdressing tool, a k\u014dgai \u2014 literally, \u201csword-needle\u201d \u2014is often found alongside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <em>kozuka<\/em> is said to have been made by Okamoto Naoshige (?\u20131780), and depicts a horse race held on the fifth day of the fifth month at Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto. Naoshige, together with \u014ctsuki Mitsuoki and Ichinomiya Nagatsune, was one of the three master swordsmiths of Kyoto, specializing in iron sword guards and <em>menuki <\/em>(a decorative metal ornament on the hilt of the katana).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Edo period Donated by Homma Norio Variously known as a \u201cutility knife\u201d or \u201ccompanion knife,\u201d a kozuka is p&#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-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","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=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}