{"id":989,"date":"2016-09-13T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2016-09-13T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T23:21:55","slug":"morning-glory-firework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Morning-Glory & Firework"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking what indicate Summer.<\/p>\n

My friend who is a Japanese answered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Morning-Glory and Firework.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Morning-Glory seeds were imported from China to Japan as a medicine in Nara period ( year 710 -7194) in Japan.<\/p>\n

They had Morning-Glory booms twice in Edo period (Year 1603-1868).<\/p>\n

People worked so hard for improvement of breed. They made exquisite variety Morning Glory as ornamental plants back then.<\/p>\n

Artists painted Morning Glory in their paintings and\u00c2\u00a0made wood block prints. Probably you have seen them.<\/p>\n

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Now they have Morning Glory fairs in summer in Japan.<\/p>\n

The most famous one is Iriya Morning Glory Fair.<\/p>\n

At the fair, 120 Morning Glory dealers and 100 booths attend and around 400,000 people visit to the fair every year.<\/p>\n

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Firework is very popular in summer in Japan.<\/p>\n

When I was a child, after hot & humid summer day neighbors got together to do a small firework party in the evening. It was so fun.<\/p>\n

Of cause there are many big firework fairs.<\/p>\n

They are so beautiful. Some of them are fantastic performance with firework with music.<\/p>\n

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“849. Morning Glory & Firework” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie<\/p><\/div>\n

This painting came from beautiful cheerful memories.<\/p>\n

I hope that you like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking what indicate Summer. My friend who is a Japanese answered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Morning-Glory and Firework.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d   Morning-Glory seeds were imported from China to Japan as a medicine in Nara period ( year 710 -7194) in Japan. They had Morning-Glory … Continue reading →<\/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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}