{"id":8814,"date":"2012-01-08T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2011-12-29T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:28:32","slug":"bokeh-%e6%9a%88%e3%81%91-or-%e3%83%9c%e3%82%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/bokeh-%e6%9a%88%e3%81%91-or-%e3%83%9c%e3%82%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bokeh (\u6688\u3051 or \u30dc\u30b1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8815\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01112328ume-flower-macro-tokyo-japan.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8815\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01112328ume-flower-macro-tokyo-japan-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u6688\u3051  \u30dc\u30b1 boke bokeh ume plum blossom\" title=\"ume flower macro tokyo japan\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01112328ume-flower-macro-tokyo-japan-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01112328ume-flower-macro-tokyo-japan-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/01112328ume-flower-macro-tokyo-japan.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ume (\u6885) in Arisugawa Memorial Park (\u6709\u6816\u5ddd\u5bae\u8a18\u5ff5\u516c\u5712 or Arisugawa no Miya Kinen Koen) in Tokyo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Boke or bokeh is a relatively new term (since the 90s) in the English language. It comes from the Japanese word \u6688\u3051\u308b which means &#8220;to be blurred&#8221; or &#8220;to be out of focus&#8221;. Boke refers to the blurry portion of images which add a nice backdrop to the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the plum blossoms will begin soon in Japan. I took this photo in early March, but some will be visible in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boke or bokeh is a relatively new term (since the 90s) in the English language. It comes from the Japanese word \u6688\u3051\u308b which means &#8220;to be blurred&#8221; or &#8220;to be out of focus&#8221;. Boke refers to the blurry portion of images which add a nice backdrop to the subject matter. By the way, the plum [&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":[212,322,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8817,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}