{"id":653,"date":"2022-10-11T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:13:23","slug":"sweeping-out-the-soot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping out the Soot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Matsuo Bash\u014d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Edo period (17th century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Wajima Shigeo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is thought that this work was created when Matsuo Bash\u014d (1644\u201394) witnessed the annual soot-sweeping event at years\u2019 end during his travels. During the Edo period, annual soot-cleaning took place on 13 December, as people performed purification rituals to greet the New Year with a clean house, clean body, and clean mind. This work expresses Bash\u014d\u2019s empathy with the activities of everyday people, and the humour inherent in the fragility of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matsuo Bash\u014d Early Edo period (17th century) Donated by Wajima Shigeo It is thought that this work was crea&#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-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}