{"id":18963,"date":"2012-07-16T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:24:54","slug":"basket-monks-c-18801900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/18963","title":{"rendered":"Basket Monks c.1880\/1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18965\" title=\"Basket Monks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/basket_monks1.jpg\" alt=\"Basket Monks\" width=\"470\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a title=\"komus\u014d on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Komus%C5%8D\" target=\"_blank\">komus\u014d\u00a0(\u865a\u7121\u50e7)<\/a>\u00a0was a Japanese mendicant monk of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism, during the Edo period of 1600-1868.<\/p>\n<p>Komus\u014d were characterised by the straw basket (a sedge or reed hood named a <em>tengai<\/em>) worn on the head, manifesting the absence of specific ego. They are also known for playing solo pieces on the shakuhachi (a type of Japanese bamboo flute).\u00a0The Japanese government introduced reforms after the Edo period, abolishing the sect.<\/p>\n<p>Komus\u014d\u00a0means &#8216;priest of nothingness&#8217; or &#8216;monk of emptiness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Retronaut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2012\/07\/komuso-basket-monks-c-18801900\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0komus\u014d\u00a0(\u865a\u7121\u50e7)\u00a0was a Japanese mendicant monk of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism, during the Edo period of 1600-1868. Komus\u014d were characterised by the straw basket (a sedge or reed hood named a tengai) worn on the head, manifesting the absence of specific ego. They are also known for playing solo pieces on the shakuhachi (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}