{"id":3402,"date":"2011-05-22T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T13:13:51","slug":"teru-teru-bozu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/3402","title":{"rendered":"Teru teru b\u014dzu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Teru teru b\u014dzu\" title=\"Teru teru b\u014dzu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/teruterubozu.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teru teru b\u014dzu \u3066\u308b\u3066\u308b\u574a\u4e3b (shiny-shiny Buddhist priest) is a little traditional hand-made doll made of white paper or cloth that Japanese farmers began hanging outside of their window by a string. This amulet is supposed to have magical powers to bring good weather and to stop or prevent a rainy day. &#8216;Teru&#8217; is a Japanese verb which describes sunshine and a &#8216;b\u014dzu&#8217; is a Buddhist monk.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wikipedia: Teru teru b\u014dzu\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teru_teru_bozu\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"7E55E-BRN \u2665 on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/73553\/4887338581\/in\/set-72057594087135947\">7E55E-BRN \u2665<\/a> who made the fine Teru teru b\u014dzu shown above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teru teru b\u014dzu \u3066\u308b\u3066\u308b\u574a\u4e3b (shiny-shiny Buddhist priest) is a little traditional hand-made doll made of white paper or cloth that Japanese farmers began hanging outside of their window by a string. This amulet is supposed to have magical powers to bring good weather and to stop or prevent a rainy day. &#8216;Teru&#8217; is a Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402"}],"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=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}