{"id":3546,"date":"2014-07-28T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:25:10","slug":"a-winter-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/a-winter-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of its beauty, lightness, and durability, lacquer was widely used in Japan for utensils and containers to serve food and drink.\u00a0A number of lacquer utensils are in this scene, many of them embellished with gold\u00a0<em>maki-e\u00a0<\/em>(decoration of sprinkled gold or silver powder).<\/p>\n<p>To the right, an entertainer holding a\u00a0<em>shamisen<\/em>\u00a0(a stringed instrument played with a plectrum) sips sake from a red lacquer cup held by a wealthy person. Before him is a red lacquer tray holding a black lacquer soup cup and a pair of chopsticks, probably made of ivory. Beside the tray is his tobacco pouch with the attached <em>netsuke<\/em> (toggle), which would suspend it from his sash.<\/p>\n<p>At left is a young dandy, holding his red lacquer sake cup as he gazes transfixed at the young\u00a0shamisen\u00a0player tuning her instrument. In the foreground are a red lacquer stand and tray holding dishes and containers of food. The doors to the veranda are open to a wintry garden scene, a peaceful contrast to the warmth and gaiety within the house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SWL-by-Olivier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6610\" src=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SWL-by-Olivier.jpg\" alt=\"SWL by Olivier\" width=\"306\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of its beauty, lightness, and durability, lacquer was widely used in Japan for utensils and containers to serve food and drink.\u00a0A number of lacquer utensils are in this scene, many of them embellished with gold\u00a0maki-e\u00a0(decoration of sprinkled gold or silver powder). To the right, an entertainer holding a\u00a0shamisen\u00a0(a stringed instrument played with a plectrum) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/a-winter-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Winter Party<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}