{"id":60810,"date":"2022-03-20T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60810"},"modified":"2022-03-20T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:09:04","slug":"iron-vase-by-asai-of-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/60810","title":{"rendered":"Iron vase by Asai of Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iron vase inlaid with gold, silver and copper by Asai of Kyoto (\u6d45\u4e95). Via David Lay Auctions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March 1876, the Samurai were prohibited from wearing their swords in public, forcing the metalworkers of Kyoto to turn from the decoration of swords to the production of civilian goods. The change was typical of the Meiji Period (1868-1912), which saw Japan transform itself from a closed feudal society to a modern industrial power.<\/p>\n

The art of this era is possibly unique in that it cannot be faked. The skills needed to build such things no longer exist and even if they did, the endless patient hours necessary to bring them to life would make the whole process unprofitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iron vase inlaid with gold, silver and copper by Asai of Kyoto (\u6d45\u4e95). Via David Lay Auctions. In March 1876, the Samurai were prohibited from wearing their swords in public, forcing the metalworkers of Kyoto to turn from the decoration of swords to the production of civilian goods. The change was typical of the Meiji […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60810"}],"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=60810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60818,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60810\/revisions\/60818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}