{"id":66,"date":"2019-05-29T03:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-05-29T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T03:02:50","slug":"drizzling-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/2019\/05\/29\/drizzling-tuesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Drizzling Tuesday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"952\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2019\/05\/mizuki_shigeru_kitsune_no_yomeiri.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2019\/05\/mizuki_shigeru_kitsune_no_yomeiri.png 952w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2019\/05\/mizuki_shigeru_kitsune_no_yomeiri-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2019\/05\/mizuki_shigeru_kitsune_no_yomeiri-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><figcaption><em>Kitsune no Yomeiri<\/em> by Shigeru Mizuki<br>\u300cThe Fox's Wedding\u30fb\u72d0\u306e\u5ac1\u5165\u308a\u300d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting next month the rainy season (tsuyu\u30fb\u6885\u96e8)  will be in full swing, but even now one can feel the changes in the air. From late last night there was a pleasant drizzle that lasted until this afternoon. On this  morning's walk to work I was fortunate enough to see some nice sunshowers.  It reminded me of the weather around Galway Bay and plucked my heart strings. Even in this drizzle the Japanese rely on umbrellas...the way they avoid even the slightest drizzle makes one think they are made of sugar and would dissolve after the smallest rain drop falls on their head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"When rain falls from a blue sky, in the Hour of the Horse, the Great Fox King takes his bride\" - Masaoka Shiki, Meiji Period poet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Japan, when the sun shines through rain, the  foxes (the shape-shifting tricksters of Japanese folklore) hold their weddings. In Japanese, it is known as \u300ckitsune no yomeiri\u30fb\u72d0\u306e\u5ac1\u5165\u308a\u300d, and when translated means the \"fox's bride taking.\" As pretty as these may be to watch, they are bad luck as the viewer will be entangled by the fox's magic powers and bad things will follow. Thus, when this weather happens, parents often tell their children to play indoors to avoid seeing these weddings (perhaps just a way to keep kids inside so they don't catch a cold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are quite a few depictions of this even in Japanese art and media, one of my favorites was brought to the silver screen in the 1990 picture called, \"Dreams\" by Akira Kurosawa (link below to watch part of it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Kitsune Wedding&quot; - Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PLhKObIHefQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>In this scene the child stumbles upon the fox's wedding procession...after seeing the wedding the women accompanying the boy gives him a knife and tells him he must commit suicide because he saw something he shouldn't have, either that or go beg for forgiveness from the unforgiving foxes...the final scene depicts the boy setting off into the mountains to find the foxes home. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next month the rainy season (tsuyu\u30fb\u6885\u96e8) will be in full swing, but even now one can feel the changes in the air. From late last night there was a pleasant drizzle that lasted until this afternoon. On this morning's walk to work I was fortunate enough to see some nice sunshowers. It reminded me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/2019\/05\/29\/drizzling-tuesday-morning\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Drizzling Tuesday Morning\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/daniel-burke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}