{"id":13388,"date":"2011-03-16T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:01:28","slug":"japanese-artists-draw-catfish-to-encourage-the-earthquake-sufferers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/japanese-artists-draw-catfish-to-encourage-the-earthquake-sufferers\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Artists Draw Catfish To Encourage The Earthquake Sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/p.twipple.jp\/data\/J\/6\/z\/u\/6.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/p.twipple.jp\/data\/J\/6\/z\/u\/6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDrawn by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shigeokahide\"><strong>shigeokahide<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nMany Japanese artists drew Namazu-e(\u9bf0\u7d75) to encourage earthquake sufferers on Twitter.<br \/>\nWhat is Namazu-e? Namazu-e\u00a0is a motif drawn in ukiyoe (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukiyo-e\">Wikipedia<\/a>) during Edo period (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edo\">Wikipedia<\/a>). &#8220;Namazu&#8221; means a catfish in Japanese.\u00a0In old days, Japanese believed that the earthquake occurs because of a catfish behaves violently in underground.\u00a0In 1855, earthquake of magnitude 6.9 attacked Kanto region(known as Ansei big earthquake &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1855_Ansei_Edo_earthquake\">Wikipedia<\/a>).\u00a0In those days, many ukiyoe artists prayed for revive from a disaster and drew the ukiyoe of the heroes exterminate a catfish.\u00a0Variations of full many Namazu-e\u00a0increased one after another. For example, god of Shinto exterminates a catfish, catfish apologizes to the people etc&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Namazu-e\u00a0project rose from this earthquake is a modern version of ukiyoe of Namazu-e. Please search hashtag <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23namazue\">#namazue on Twitter<\/a>. You can find various kind of hot artworks.\u00a0<br \/>\n* This project is not meant to harm or kill any real catfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawn by shigeokahide. Many Japanese artists drew Namazu-e(\u9bf0\u7d75) to encourage earthquake sufferers on Twitter. What is Namazu-e? Namazu-e\u00a0is a motif drawn in ukiyoe (Wikipedia) during Edo period (Wikipedia). &#8220;Namazu&#8221; means a catfish in Japanese.\u00a0In old days, Japanese believed that the earthquake occurs because of a catfish behaves violently in underground.\u00a0In 1855, earthquake of magnitude 6.9&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/japanese-artists-draw-catfish-to-encourage-the-earthquake-sufferers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Artists Draw Catfish To Encourage The Earthquake Sufferers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[304,1018,1644,3856],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-art","tag-earthquake","tag-illustration","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}