{"id":1061,"date":"2017-11-23T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2017-11-23T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:38:44","slug":"peace-at-jug-handle-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Peace at Jug Handle State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Happy Thanksgiving day!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Japan we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Thanksgiving day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But we have national holidays in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of them is Culture Day on November 3rd.\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Culture Day is a national holiday when people are encouraged to love freedom and peace and to promote culture. The love of freedom and peace are declared in the Constitution of Japan, which was established after World War II. Historically, November 3rd was celebrated as the birthday of the Meiji Emperor and this day of feast was called Meiji-setsu. After World War II the Constitution of Japan was promulgated on November 3rd, 1946. In 1948, this date was designated as Culture Day in commemoration of this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many cultural events are held throughout Japan during the period around Culture Day. Art, film, drama, broadcasting, and music festivals take place at this time. Many schools also have culture festivals where students use cultural activities to display what they have done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other one is Kinr\u00c5\u008d kansha no hi which is a national holiday on November 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is called Labor Thanksgiving day in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Japan borrows Thanksgiving day in USA to translate the holiday into English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The holiday is for commemorating labor and production and giving one another thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The day was originally a festival in which new rice was offered to gods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say Thank you for being my friends. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sending my love to all of you through my painting with my smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1062\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/peacejughandlepark.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-image-1062 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/952.-Peace-at-Jug-Handle-State-Park_blog-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;952. Peace at Jug Handle State Park&#8221; Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This location is Jug Handle State Park, CA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving day!! In Japan we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have\u00c2\u00a0 Thanksgiving day. But we have national holidays in November. One of them is Culture Day on November 3rd.\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac Culture Day is a national holiday when people are encouraged to love freedom and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}