{"id":33345,"date":"2025-02-06T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=33345"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:35:37","slug":"%e3%81%a4%e3%81%8f%e3%81%b0%e3%81%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2025\/02\/%e3%81%a4%e3%81%8f%e3%81%b0%e3%81%84\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3064\u304f\u3070\u3044"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33346\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/24O_5232-RAW-ashland-japanese-garden-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33346\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/24O_5232-RAW-ashland-japanese-garden-clear.jpg\" alt=\"ashland japanese garden oregon\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsukubai in Ashland&#8217;s Japanese Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2023\/09\/ashland-japanese-garden-2\/>mentioned before<\/a> about how Ashland&#8217;s Japanese Garden in Lithia Park reminds me of <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/ryoanji-%e9%be%8d%e5%ae%89%e5%af%ba\/>Ryoanji in Kyoto, Japan<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t notice this <I>tsukubai<\/I> (stone washbasin) in my earlier visits, but I did this past November as I thought I saw a similar one in Ryoanji. After searching through some old photos, I found my picture of the Ryoanji <I>tsukubai<\/I> and sure enough, this one in Ashland is an exact replica of the 17th century stone in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>The characters combine with the square in the middle to spell out \u543e\u552f\u8db3\u77e5 <I>Ware tada taru wo shiru<\/I> (I only know contentment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned before about how Ashland&#8217;s Japanese Garden in Lithia Park reminds me of Ryoanji in Kyoto, Japan. I didn&#8217;t notice this tsukubai (stone washbasin) in my earlier visits, but I did this past November as I thought I saw a similar one in Ryoanji. After searching through some old photos, I found my picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[396,876,875,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33349,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions\/33349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}