{"id":6383,"date":"2010-10-05T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:42:42","slug":"heavy-metal-koto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/heavy-metal-koto\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal Koto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050280trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050280trim-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"heavy metal japanese music\" title=\"dazai mitsuki koto\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050280trim-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050280trim-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050280trim.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=rpcman&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=B000P30CSC\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=right><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know which blog this would be most fitting to post on so I&#8217;m posting it, with different photos, both here and on my <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2010\/10\/green-show-koto-performance\/>Ashland Daily Photo blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was having its &#8220;Culture Fest.&#8221; At noon a matin\u00e9e Green Show featured Mitsuki Dazai on the Japanese koto. Ms. Dazai was lots of fun between songs, telling stories and enchanting the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is performing Shaei (\u659c\u5f71 or &#8220;Diagonal Shadows&#8221;) by Hikaru Sawai (\u6ca2\u4e95 \u6bd4\u6cb3\u6d41). Sawai was in a heavy metal band before writing this piece for the koto. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"800\" height=\"475\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KPHXjaX1D6k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KPHXjaX1D6k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know which blog this would be most fitting to post on so I&#8217;m posting it, with different photos, both here and on my Ashland Daily Photo blog. This past Sunday, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival was having its &#8220;Culture Fest.&#8221; At noon a matin\u00e9e Green Show featured Mitsuki Dazai on the Japanese koto. Ms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[176,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}