{"id":352,"date":"2015-11-27T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2018-06-01T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T21:47:14","slug":"kasa-obake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Kasa-obake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kasa-obake1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kasa-obake1.png\" alt=\"Kasa-obake1\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kasa-obake1.png 576w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kasa-obake1-120x150.png 120w, http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kasa-obake1-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is another Japanese contribution; kasa-obake. \u00a0Kasa-obake are y\u014dkai (roughly translated, y\u014dkai are ghosts, apparitions, or supernatural entities). \u00a0In many instances, the kasa-obake is an umbrella with one eye, a long tongue, and one leg which it uses to jump around. \u00a0Some also consider the kasa-obake as a tsukumogami, which is a term used to describe a tool or object that after 100 years of existence, becomes animated and self aware. \u00a0Japanese folklore never lets me down and I always enjoy reading through some of the strange and fantastic creatures and spirits that are part of the culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Monster is another Japanese contribution; kasa-obake. \u00a0Kasa-obake are y\u014dkai (roughly translated, y\u014dkai are ghosts, apparitions, or supernatural entities). \u00a0In many instances, the kasa-obake is an umbrella with one eye, a long tongue, and one leg which it uses to jump around. \u00a0Some also consider the kasa-obake as a tsukumogami, which is a term&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[177,200,283,176,173,169,285,284,282],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-monster","tag-creature","tag-japan","tag-kasa-obake","tag-legend","tag-monster","tag-myth","tag-tsukumogami","tag-umbrella","tag-yokai","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}