{"id":269,"date":"2022-03-02T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:47:29","slug":"meandering-stream-at-lan-ting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Meandering Stream at Lan-Ting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Shousai \/ Meiji Period (1868-1912)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Mr. Kichizo Hasegawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title \u2018Meandering Stream at Lan-Ting\u2019 is so-called due to the legend that Wang Xi-Zhi (\u2018Ou Gishi\u2019 in Japanese) gathered forty-one literati to purify themselves in Lan-ting of Zhejiang Province, on March 3, 535, the ninth year of the Jin Dynasty in China. The idea was to pour a cup into the winding stream and compose a poem as it passed in front of you. The habit of taking ablution on the third day of the third month became a custom in China and was then introduced to Japan as \u2018Joushi no Harai\u2019 (Doll\u2019s Festival Purification Ritual).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, the custom was combined with children&#8217;s \u2018Hina-asobi\u2019 pastime (playing with dolls) and by the Edo Period (1603-1868), it had become established as the Hina or Doll\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shousai \/ Meiji Period (1868-1912) Donated by Mr. Kichizo Hasegawa The title \u2018Meandering Stream at Lan-Ting&#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-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}