{"id":334,"date":"2022-04-03T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2022-04-03T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:24:32","slug":"karakuri-doll-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Karakuri Doll&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>H\u014dreki era (1751\u20131764) Donated by Sait\u014d Sh\u014dji<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the doll\u2019s face and costume are exquisitely made. Japanese painter and doll researcher Nishizawa Tekiho believes that this was originally a \u2018karakuri\u2019 doll, with the ability to move its head, arms and legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word karakuri, which can also mean \u201csubtle trickery,\u201d is derived from the verb karakuru, meaning to \u201cpull, stretch, and move a thread.\u201d Such dolls were usually handcrafted from wood, and operated by clockwork or puppeteers depending on their size. A karakuri automaton is usually a dual feat of art and engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u014dreki era (1751\u20131764) Donated by Sait\u014d Sh\u014dji Both the doll\u2019s face and costume are exquisitely made. Japanese &#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-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}