{"id":248,"date":"2022-02-28T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2022-02-28T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:03:54","slug":"palace-doll-the-chrysanthemum-boy-kikujido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Palace Doll\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujid\u014d)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bunsei era (1818\u20131830) Donated by Sait\u014d Sh\u014dji<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doll\u2019s features are distinctive, but nevertheless retain a gentle expression. It is thought to have once held a chrysanthemum flower or brush in its right hand, but this has unfortunately been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This doll is based on a Chinese story, in which a former boy attendant who once served Emperor Mu (r. 1001\u2013946 BCE) of the Zhou Dynasty was exiled for the crime of walking across the pillow of the monarch, an unforgivable breach of palace decorum. While leading a secluded life in the countryside, he copied several verses of a sutra onto chrysanthemum leaves, and discovered that drinking the dewdrops gathering on the leaves granted him immortality. This story was adapted as a Noh play and has been performed for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunsei era (1818\u20131830) Donated by Sait\u014d Sh\u014dji The doll\u2019s features are distinctive, but nevertheless retain a g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}