{"id":388,"date":"2022-04-04T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:36:55","slug":"tango-no-sekku-doll-ota-dokan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Tango no Sekku Doll\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u014cta D\u014dkan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edo period (1603\u20131868)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Donated by Yok\u014d Akino<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u014cta D\u014dkan\u2014also known as \u014cta Sukenaga, or more commonly his Buddhist name D\u014dkan\u2014was a warlord, military tactician, and Buddhist monk of the late Muromachi period (1336\u20131573). While he is most famous for having designed and built Edo Castle, many other anecdotes of him have been turned into stories, artworks and dolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular doll represents a scene from \u201cThe Legend of Yamabuki,\u201d in which a peasant girl presents D\u014dkan with yamabuki flowers (kerria japonica, or Japanese rose bush) from the bushes surrounding her house instead of the straw raincoat (\u2018mino\u2019) he requests when caught in the rain during a falconry hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u014dkan was initially furious, but later realized that she was alluding to a well-known waka poem by Prince Kaneakira: the yamabuki blossoms are abundant with petals; despite this, sad to say, they bear no fruits (\u2018mino,\u2019 also meaning \u2018no fruits.\u2019) The yellow blossoms surrounding her house bore no fruit: her family was too poor to even afford a raincoat. Humbled and ashamed of his ignorance, D\u014dkan devoted himself to the study of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo period (1603\u20131868)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Donated by Yok\u014d Akino \u014cta D\u014dkan\u2014also known as \u014cta Sukenaga, or more c&#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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}