{"id":8862,"date":"2013-05-27T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2013-05-27T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T02:01:09","slug":"samurai-armor-exhibit-at-the-boston-museum-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2013\/05\/27\/samurai-armor-exhibit-at-the-boston-museum-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Armor Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"To<\/a>

To the samurai a glorious death in battle was desireable but an anonymous dealth was not. Armor was elaborately decorated to make sure that the wearer’s valorous deeds would be recognized.<\/p><\/div>
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\"The<\/a>

The small bow on the left was designed to be used from inside a palanquin. To the right is a normal Japanese longbow.<\/p><\/div>
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\"Metal<\/a>

Metal masks were worn to protect the face in battle.<\/p><\/div>
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\"The<\/a>

The big noses on these masks were supposed to represent European features.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Native<\/a>

Native Japanese horses are small–technically ponies.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This horse’s armor makes it look like a dragon.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Standing<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Battle<\/a>

Battle standards, drums and war fans could be used for signalling.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This helm is designed to look like the headgear of a Zen priest.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Elaborate<\/a><\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This warrior would be visible from a long distance away.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This armor is designed to look like a character from folklore: a karasu-tengu<\/a> (crow spirit).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[566],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japaneseculture","category-photos","tag-samurai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8882,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}