{"id":8464,"date":"2011-11-04T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2011-11-03T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:29:10","slug":"samurai-commemorative-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/samurai-commemorative-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai commemorative photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8465\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10130735TakedaJinjaKinenShashin.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8465\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10130735TakedaJinjaKinenShashin-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"samurai commemorative photo\" title=\"Takeda Jinja Kinen Shashin\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10130735TakedaJinjaKinenShashin-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10130735TakedaJinjaKinenShashin-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10130735TakedaJinjaKinenShashin.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takeda Shingen Festival - Ricoh samurai (employees) line up for the customary commemorative photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Japanese take more canned, commemorative photos (\u8a18\u5ff5\u5199\u771f) than anyone. Perhaps they take more than all other cultures combined. Who knows? <\/p>\n<p>Everyone tends to look very solemn in these <I>kinen shashin<\/I>, and the pictures tend to include so many people that you can&#8217;t really see who is in the photo anyway. Rather boring, right? <\/p>\n<p>I suppose one way to liven things up is to have the participants dress as <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/a-couple-of-samurai\/>samurai<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese take more canned, commemorative photos (\u8a18\u5ff5\u5199\u771f) than anyone. Perhaps they take more than all other cultures combined. Who knows? Everyone tends to look very solemn in these kinen shashin, and the pictures tend to include so many people that you can&#8217;t really see who is in the photo anyway. Rather boring, right? I suppose [&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":[271,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464"}],"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=8464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8464\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}