{"id":366,"date":"2022-04-03T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2022-04-03T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:45:30","slug":"boys-festival-dolls-takasago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Boys\u2019 Festival Dolls&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Takasago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edo period (1603\u20131868)\u3000Donated by Y\u014dko Akino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These dolls represent Okina and Ouna, the spirits of the Paired Pines\u2013\u2013the Takasago and Suminoe Pines respectively\u2013\u2013from the Noh play \u201cTakasago.\u201d In the play, the main characters are an elderly couple who eventually reveal themselves to be the spirits of the two pine trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since ancient times in Japan, people have believed that spirits dwell in pine trees, and celebrate the tree as a symbol of longevity for its evergreen nature. Many dolls like these were made as symbols of longevity and marital happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo period (1603\u20131868)\u3000Donated by Y\u014dko Akino These dolls represent Okina and Ouna, the spirits of the Paired P&#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-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}