{"id":2256,"date":"2011-05-08T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:33:01","slug":"japan-and-catfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2011\/05\/japan-and-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and Catfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/namazue_39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2258\" title=\"namazue_39\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/namazue_39-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the assumption that some of our readers teach East Asian History and thus may on occasion have to talk about Japan, history, and earthquakes, I offer two links.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious place to look for historical understanding of Japan and earthquakes is Gregory Smits &#8220;Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints&#8221; <em>Journal of Social History <\/em>39.4 (2006) He has lots of cool pictures, and you can find even more (thus impressing your students with your knowledge) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinktentacle.com\/2011\/04\/namazu-e-earthquake-catfish-prints\/\">Pink Tentacle <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a more modern assessment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Earthquake-Nation-Cultural-Seismicity-1868-1930\/dp\/0520246071\">this <\/a>is a good choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the assumption that some of our readers teach East Asian History and thus may on occasion have to talk about Japan, history, and earthquakes, I offer two links. The obvious place to look for historical understanding of Japan and earthquakes is Gregory Smits &#8220;Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-Ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}