{"id":2261,"date":"2021-10-03T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:51:16","slug":"carvings-of-karamon-nijo-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/image\/carvings-of-karamon-nijo-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Carvings of Karamon- Nijo Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" width=\"849\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-675x448.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-480x319.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Title: Carvings of Karamon, Nijo-jo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photographer: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.m.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Reggaeman\">Reggaeman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: April, 6, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Repository\/Location: Nijo Castle, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DVC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Carvings of Karamon are within the Karamon Gate, of Nijo Castle. Karamon gate is made up of cypress bark, and depicts wooden carvings of &#8220;luan&#8221; (a mythical bird), pine trees, peonies, clouds, and &#8220;shachihoko&#8221; (a traditional dolphin-like fish). These carvings are extremely entangled and detailed, making it hard to distinguish foreground, midground, and background. While they are painted bright colors, their edges are also plated in gold. This fits with the additional gold patterned decor on the supporting beams- making the piece look distinguished and elegant. The gate itself has a &#8220;hip-gable&#8221; roof, which consists of all roof sides sloping downwards, over the walls. This level of decoration speaks to the purpose of the gate: to be a symbol of authority. Thus, it proclaimed the level of prestige of the buildings behind it. This is why the Karamon entrance was only reserved for the Shogun, for his visits. This alludes to the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate (who owned Nijo castle), and can be sharply contrasted with the Emperor&#8217;s Katsura Villa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Carvings of Karamon, Nijo-jo Photographer: Reggaeman Date: April, 6, 2009 Repository\/Location: Nijo Castle, Kyoto DVC: The Carvings of Karamon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,18],"tags":[66,3,67,41,59],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-pick","category-image","tag-image","tag-japan","tag-landscape","tag-sculpture","tag-tokugawa","wpcat-69-id","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}