{"id":2227,"date":"2014-01-13T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2014-01-13T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T02:13:02","slug":"kusakabe-mingei-kan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/kusakabe-mingei-kan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kusakabe mingei-kan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This house belonged to the <strong>Kusakabe family<\/strong>, successful <strong>Takayama merchants<\/strong> who thrived in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. It was built in 1879 to replace an earlier home and business lost in a fire.\u00a0It is a two storey structure, foot-square cypress timbers are as perfectly fitted as cabinet work, as might be expected from builders of this <strong>Hida region<\/strong> (famous throughout the country for their skills in woodwork and carpentry). Its most noticeable feature is perhaps the fireplace \u2013 a sunken hearth made of iron known as an irori and above it a huge adjustable hook for hanging a pot or kettle, known as a jizai-kagi. This is the heart of the daidokoro or family room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/kusakabe-mingei-kan\/6927700-kusakabe_mingei_kan-takayama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2228\" alt=\"6927700-Kusakabe_mingei_kan-Takayama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6927700-Kusakabe_mingei_kan-Takayama-480x358.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6927700-Kusakabe_mingei_kan-Takayama-480x358.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6927700-Kusakabe_mingei_kan-Takayama-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6927700-Kusakabe_mingei_kan-Takayama.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This house belonged to the Kusakabe family, successful Takayama merchants who thrived in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. It was built in 1879 to replace an earlier home and business lost in a fire.\u00a0It is a two storey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/kusakabe-mingei-kan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}