{"id":786,"date":"2009-10-01T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=786"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:13","slug":"mystery-circles-on-early-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/10\/mystery-circles-on-early-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Circles on Early Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/mongol-scrolls\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Mongol-Invasion-Scroll-Screen-Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Mongol Invasion Scroll Screen Capture\" title=\"Mongol Invasion Scroll Screen Capture\" width=\"569\" height=\"431\" align=center\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is that circular disk which early medieval samurai wear over their swords? Is it a weight, to keep it from flopping around while horseriding? <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my best guess at this point. I&#8217;ve done a little research on this, but haven&#8217;t come up with answers, but my collection&#8217;s a bit thin on armor parts. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen it in the Heiji Scroll, and a few other pre-Warring States images, but I don&#8217;t recall seeing it after about the Onin War. <\/p>\n<p>I get this question every time I show my students the War Scrolls, but I&#8217;ve never had a good answer. Help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is that circular disk which early medieval samurai wear over their swords? Is it a weight, to keep it from flopping around while horseriding? That&#8217;s my best guess at this point. I&#8217;ve done a little research on this, but haven&#8217;t come up with answers, but my collection&#8217;s a bit thin on armor parts. I&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[167,63,185,186,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-japan","category-martial-arts","category-medieval","category-pedagogy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-cG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}