{"id":770,"date":"2008-03-21T00:54:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-21\/770"},"modified":"2008-03-21T00:54:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:54:48","slug":"hinamatsuri-display-made-by-a-five-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-21\/770","title":{"rendered":"Hinamatsuri Display Made by a Five Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='046920' href=\"\/i\/JEF_046920.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_046920_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Emperor and Empress Hinamatsuri display made by 5-year-old Anthony -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i046920\"\nphotostream=\"anthony\"\ntitle=\"Craft Hinamatsuri display made by a five-year-old boy\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_046920.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Emperor and Empress<\/span>\n<br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hina_Matsuri\">Hinamatsuri<\/a> display made by 5-year-old Anthony\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hina_Matsuri\">Hinamatsuri<\/a>\n&ndash; the doll festival &ndash; is from <span class='nobr'>a tradition<\/span> that dates back about\n900 to 1,100 years. Young children and older girls put out displays of\ndolls of the Heian court (the Japanese imperial court from about 800 to\n1200 AD). Some people put out huge, elaborate displays with many dolls and\naccessories, but <span class='nobr'>I much<\/span> prefer to see Anthony's artwork. <span class='nobr'>All the kids<\/span> at\npreschool made them in the same basic form, but each ended up quite different,\nwith its own personality.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name='046913' href=\"\/i\/JEF_046913.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_046913_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i046913\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\ntitle=\"Craft Hinamatsuri display made by a five-year-old boy\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_046913.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I've got to wonder whether the emperor's frown is on purpose or an\naccident. Japanese never smile for formal pictures (school pictures,\npictures for ID badges, etc.), so maybe the emperor was intended to look\nstern. <span class='nobr'>It's probably<\/span> simply that Anthony wasn't paying attention. <span class='nobr'>I like his<\/span> big eye, too.<\/p>\n\n<p>Both figures are holding <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uchiwa#Asia\">folding fans<\/a>, hers\nbeing open and his being closed.<\/p>\n\n<p>We had this on display in front of the living-room window for <span class='nobr'>a while.<\/span>..<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='046915' href=\"\/i\/JEF_046915.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_046915_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i046915\"\ntitle=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>180 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_046915.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I went out again this evening to photograph the Kyoto Higashiyama\n&#8220;Hanatoro&#8221; Lightup Event <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-03-18\/768\">as\n<span class='nobr'>I did<\/span> the other day<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>I go some<\/span> nice shots that I'll have to post\nsoon...<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinamatsuri &ndash; the doll festival &ndash; is from a tradition that dates back about 900 to 1,100 years. Young children and older girls put out displays of dolls of the Heian court (the Japanese imperial court from about 800 to 1200 AD). Some people put out huge, elaborate displays with many dolls and accessories, but I much prefer to see Anthony's artwork. All the kids at preschool made them in the same basic form, but each ended up quite different, with its own personality.<\/p> <p>I've got to wonder whether the emperor's frown is on purpose or an accident. Japanese never [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}