{"id":209,"date":"2019-09-03T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/?p=209"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:17:08","slug":"menuki-wachigai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/2019\/09\/03\/menuki-wachigai\/","title":{"rendered":"Menuki &#038; Wachigai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10.25_\u76ee\u8cab-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;Menuki &amp; Wachigai><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a very unusual item called \u201cMenuki\u201d made at the end of the Edo period. <br>Menuki is a decorative fitting attached to the handle of a sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This shape is called \u201cWachigai\u201d, a pattern with two or more rings hanging together, that has been used since the Heian period.<br>The shape formed by the overlapping of the two rings means that two people help each other and live together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shape has something to be connected with Mokumeganeya wedding bands, \u201cTsunagaru-Katachi\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/smp\/engage-list.html\">Engagement Rings of Japan Style READ MORE \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/smp\/marriage-list.html\">Wedding Bands of Japan Style READ MORE \u00bb\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;Menuki &amp; Wac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mokumeganeya.com\/e\/japanstyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}