{"id":746,"date":"2022-11-30T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:04:34","slug":"shichikan-celadon-duck-censer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Shichikan celadon duck censer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late Ming dynasty (17th century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This celadon censer was fired at the Longquan kilns in Zhejiang Province and is shaped like a duck. Being hollow from the bottom lid to the mouth, the smoke rises up out of the mouth. During the Muromachi period, many animal-shaped censers were imported to Japan and used for decorating tatami rooms. In particular, censers in the shape of ducks were valued highly as decorations for <em>chigaidana <\/em>staggered shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This style of celadon is known in Japan as <em>shichikan<\/em>. It is characterized by its strong, translucent blue-green color. The origin of the term <em>shichikan<\/em> is believed to be the title of the Chinese person who first introduced it to Japan, but the specifics are not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Ming dynasty (17th century) Donated by the Homma family This celadon censer was fired at the Longquan kil&#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-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}