{"id":7453,"date":"2011-05-15T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2011-05-15T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:08:11","slug":"ancient-japanese-robot-karakuri-or-%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/ancient-japanese-robot-karakuri-or-%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Japanese Robot (karakuri or \u304b\u3089\u304f\u308a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1030066trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1030066trim-487x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"karakuri takayama water puppet automata\" width=\"487\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1030066trim-487x800.jpg 487w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1030066trim-152x250.jpg 152w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/P1030066trim.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the lovely town of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/takayama\/>Takayama<\/a>, Japan you can find this <I>karakuri<\/i> or Japanese automaton from a few hundred years ago. The puppet\/robot is situated over the water drain that runs down the street so that during a rain storm the water rushing under this device will bring the puppet to life. It is essentially a water-powered robot. <\/p>\n<p>The signs below the puppet say &#8220;Please don&#8217;t touch, even if it isn&#8217;t moving.&#8221; and &#8220;This karakuri runs on water so it is rare that it is actually moving.&#8221; The sign above the puppet says it is from the Edo Jidai (\u6c5f\u6238\u6642\u4ee3 or 1603-1868).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lovely town of Takayama, Japan you can find this karakuri or Japanese automaton from a few hundred years ago. The puppet\/robot is situated over the water drain that runs down the street so that during a rain storm the water rushing under this device will bring the puppet to life. It is essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"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=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}