{"id":65712,"date":"2024-07-19T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jul\/19\/the-songs-of-the-goze-rieko-hirosawa-keeps-tradition-alive-in-japan-video"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:59:23","slug":"the-songs-of-the-goze-rieko-hirosawa-keeps-tradition-alive-in-japan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65712","title":{"rendered":"The songs of the goze: Rieko Hirosawa keeps tradition alive in Japan  \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rieko Hirosawa, who herself is blind, has learned how to play the shamisen and sing the songs of the <em>goze<\/em>, blind and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/blindness\">visually impaired<\/a> women who earned a living as itinerant musicians and who numbered in their hundreds at their peak in the late 19th century. She is at the heart of a movement to protect the legacy of the <em>goze<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jul\/19\/the-songs-of-the-goze-rieko-hirosawa-keeps-tradition-alive-in-japan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rieko Hirosawa, who herself is blind, has learned how to play the shamisen and sing the songs of the goze, blind and visually impaired women who earned a living as itinerant musicians and who numbered in their hundreds at their peak in the late 19th ce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712\/revisions\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}