{"id":12212,"date":"2010-06-26T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12212"},"modified":"2010-06-26T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:02:37","slug":"samurai-in-new-york-exhibition-opens-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/26\/samurai-in-new-york-exhibition-opens-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai in New York Exhibition Opens in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Japan-NYC-Logo-Shu-Kubo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12211\" title=\"Japan-NYC Logo (Shu Kubo)\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Japan-NYC-Logo-Shu-Kubo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Japan-NYC-Logo-Shu-Kubo.gif 415w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Japan-NYC-Logo-Shu-Kubo-300x286.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><em>\u00a0By <\/em><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JQ Magazine<\/em><\/a><em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a><em> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The year 2010 is an auspicious one for New York and Japan. Fifty years ago, Gotham became Tokyo\u2019s first sister city, and 150 years ago this month, a samurai envoy paraded down Broadway after clinching diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Nippon.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate that distinguished day, tributary events here in New York have included the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Experience-Japan-Day--Central-Park-Sunday\">Japan Day @ Central Park<\/a> on June 6 which recreated the original samurai procession, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m6d15-Empire-State-Building-sports-special-USJapan-commemoration-colors\">special lighting of the Empire State Building<\/a> on June 16 to commemorate the actual anniversary date, and now, the Museum of the City of New York\u2019s exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcny.org\/exhibitions\/current\/Samurai-in-New-York.html\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Delegation, 1860<\/a>, on view from June 25 through October 11, with a special gallery tour on Saturday, June 26 hosted by project director Kathleen Benson, Yuko Suzuki of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consulate General of Japan<\/a> and Eric Campbell of the consulate\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/b\/01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Information Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m6d24-City-Museum-Unveils-Samurai-in-New-York-Friday\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0 The year 2010 is an auspicious one for New York and Japan. Fifty years ago, Gotham became Tokyo\u2019s first sister city, and 150 years ago this month, a samurai envoy paraded down Broadway after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[8,119,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-japan-fix","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12215,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions\/12215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}