{"id":1426,"date":"2010-04-27T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/matsue-castle"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:30:23","slug":"matsue-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/matsue-castle","title":{"rendered":"Matsue Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastue is home to one of the few castles remaining from the feudal era of Japan&#8217;s history. We figured that it would be a must-see while we were in Matsue, simply because castles are generally must-see sorts of things as far as Tracie and I are concerned. The castle and the surrounding grounds were indeed very much worth visiting. Two things caught us by surprise. First, the castle grounds are home to a lovely collection of cherry trees that were at their peak while we were there. Second, the castle is home to a small but spectacular collection of old armor, helmets, swords, arrows, etc. The lighting inside this area is obviously not idea for photography, but I took a bunch of photos anyway. There is a new set on my flickr site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/sets\/72157623944149078\/\">here<\/a> containing over 70 photos from the castle grounds and interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastue is home to one of the few castles remaining from the feudal era of Japan&#8217;s history. We figured that it would be a must-see while we were in Matsue, simply because castles are generally must-see sorts of things as far as Tracie and I are concerned. The castle and the surrounding grounds were indeed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/matsue-castle\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matsue Castle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2010","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}