{"id":65710,"date":"2024-07-19T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/playing-for-survival-the-blind-japanese-woman-keeping-a-music-tradition-alive"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T01:00:26","slug":"playing-for-survival-the-blind-japanese-woman-keeping-a-music-tradition-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65710","title":{"rendered":"Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Goze<\/em> \u2013 women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments \u2013 are all but forgotten in Japan but Rieko Hirosawa has learned their songs<\/p>\n<p>Rieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She unleashes an impossibly high note while her <em>bachi<\/em> plectrum slaps the three strings of her shamisen, a traditional instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, they slice through the stillness of an oppressively humid afternoon. If her neighbours were wondering if the usually softly spoken Hirosawa was at home, now they know.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/playing-for-survival-the-blind-japanese-woman-keeping-a-music-tradition-alive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goze \u2013 women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments \u2013 are all but forgotten in Japan but Rieko Hirosawa has learned their songsRieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,1020,88,425,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-disability","category-japan","category-music","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65710\/revisions\/65711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}