{"id":2779,"date":"2023-07-12T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:54:29","slug":"products-of-greater-japan-illustration-of-giant-butterbur-in-akita-dewa-province-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"Products of Greater Japan \u2013 Illustration of Giant Butterbur in Akita, Dewa Province"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Utagawa Hiroshige III<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1877 (Meiji 10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Tanba Tsuneo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The giant butterbur (<em>Petasites japonicus<\/em>) grows wild in Japan\u2019s northern regions of Hokkaido and Tohoku, and the cultivated version of the wild plant is known as \u201cAkita Butterbur.\u201d The diameter of the leaf can grow to one meter (3.28 feet), and it can reach a height of two meters (6.56 feet). Its leaves were employed to take shelter from rain, and were also used for those riding horses as a type of umbrella. With its fleshy thickness and bitter taste, it is mostly eaten preserved in sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utagawa Hiroshige III 1877 (Meiji 10) Donated by Tanba Tsuneo The giant butterbur (Petasites japonicus) grows &#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-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","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=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}