{"id":2694,"date":"2023-07-12T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2023-07-14T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T02:42:52","slug":"king-wen-qilin-and-phoenix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"King Wen, Qilin and Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kan\u014d Tsunenobu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early to mid-Edo period (17th-18th century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kan\u014d Tsunenobu (1636\u20131713) was the son of Naonobu, the nephew of Kan\u014d Tan\u2019y, and an official painter for the Tokugawa shogunate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The middle hanging scroll depicts King Wen of Zhou\u2014posthumously honored as King and founder of the Zhou Dynasty\u2014who led the campaign to crush the Kingdom of Shang. The left scroll depicts the phoenix and the right scroll depicts the qilin, a Chinese mythological hooved chimerical creature. Along with the dragon and the turtle, they are divine creatures in Chinese mythology thought to bring good fortune.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This triptych came to the Homma family from the Maeda family of the Kaga domain, via the wealthy Sakata merchant Futaki Yosuke. It was displayed on the second floor of the Seienkaku residence when Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, and Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu\u2014the sons of Emperor Taish\u014d on 8 August 1921.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kan\u014d Tsunenobu Early to mid-Edo period (17th-18th century) Donated by the Homma family Kan\u014d Tsunenobu (1636\u201317&#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-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}