{"id":523,"date":"2007-07-21T23:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T03:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/21\/black-ships-festival\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T17:58:57","slug":"black-ships-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/21\/black-ships-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ships Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter and I just got back from the Black Ships Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry&#8217;s &#8220;black ships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photos below the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/aikidodetail.jpg' alt='Aikido Demonstration' \/>Aikido demonstration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enshinkan.com\/\">Newport Aikikai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dolls.jpg' alt='Dolls' \/>Traditional Dolls.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/raku.jpg' alt='Raku Firing' \/>Denise Wilkey demonstrates the traditional art of Raku firing.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sumo.jpg' alt='Sumo Wrestlers' \/>Sumo Wrestlers. <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/manga.jpg' alt='Manga'  \/><br \/>\nManga drawing workshop.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tea.jpg' alt='Tea Ceremony' \/>Demonstration of a traditional tea ceremony by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kajiasostudio.com\/webroot\/home.cfm\">Kaji Aso Studio<\/a> (Boston).<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tea2.jpg' alt='Tea Ceremony' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/koto.jpg' alt='Koto' \/><br \/>\nSumie Kaneko plays the koto&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/shamisen.jpg' alt='Shamisen' \/><br \/>\n&#8230;and the shamisen.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/iaijutsu.jpg' alt='Iaijutsu' \/><br \/>\nDemonstration of &#8220;Iaijutsu.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter and I just got back from the Black Ships Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry&#8217;s &#8220;black ships.&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/07\/21\/black-ships-festival\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,174],"tags":[205,20],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japaneseculture","category-photos","tag-black-ships-festival","tag-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}