{"id":4676,"date":"2025-06-05T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:58:01","slug":"a-glimpse-of-summer-in-timeless-japanese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/?p=4676","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse of Summer in Timeless Japanese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in Tokyo, the sky is blue. It&#8217;s hot and humid. Summer is definitely in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reflect the season, we&#8217;ve hung a kakejiku (hanging scroll) in our room. This calligraphy was written by the calligrapher Akagi Shoka and contains a waka poem by Empress Jit\u014d over 1,300 years ago. Though calling her a &#8220;busy businesswoman&#8221; might be quite disrespectful, I think that we today can strongly empathize with her feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the poem, the empress is so caught up in her daily duties that she doesn&#8217;t realize summer has arrived until she sees bright white clothing drying on the hillside of Amakaguyama in Nara. That moment of seasonal beauty moved her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a busy professional yourself, why not take a break and enjoy a moment of quiet elegance, just as she did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At our salon, you can experience Japanese culture through calligraphy and tea ceremony, all inside a charming traditional Japanese house. Private reservations are available, even for solo guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to book your own peaceful escape \u2014 we look forward to welcoming you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Tokyo, the sky is blue. It&#8217;s hot and hum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasonal-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}