{"id":52188,"date":"2015-04-11T02:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=52188"},"modified":"2015-04-03T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:58:38","slug":"language-center-event-recitation-of-short-stories-by-rodoku-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=52188","title":{"rendered":"LANGUAGE CENTER EVENT Recitation of Short Stories by RODOKU Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>04\/11\/2015 2pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Website_large_rodoku_sakura.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[52188]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Website_large_rodoku_sakura.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIn the Woods Beneath Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom\u201d by Ango Sakaguchi (1947)<br \/>\nThe mountains are dotted with cherry trees. There, a bandit makes his living by robbing and stealing from travelers. One day, he kidnaps a beautiful woman and makes her his wife. The beautiful woman soon misses her fancy lifestyle and demands that they move to the city. In the city, the woman\u2019s demands keep escalating, and soon the bandit gets tired of it all and decides to go back to the mountains. However, he&#8217;s concerned about the one thing that terrifies him &#8211; cherry blossoms in full bloom.<\/p>\n<p>The novel, which has been made into a movie and stage play, portrays the cherry blossom as something that&#8217;s so extremely beautiful that it becomes terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cherry Orchard\u201d by  Anton Chekhov (1903), Edited by Miwa Satojima &amp; Chiyo Abe<br \/>\nRanevskaya, a Russian aristrocrat is brought by her daughter Anya, to the cherry orchard where she grew up after spending five years in Paris. She has used up all of her family\u2019s fortune by living a luxurious life and the orchard is about to be auctioned off to pay the bills. A former serf of the orchard, Lopakhin, proposes renting out the orchard as a villa. However, Ranevskaya\u2019s mind is preoccupied by two things: her son, who died young, and her lover she left in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Chekhov\u2019s masterpiece has been rearranged to show the story from Anya\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/recitation-of-short-stories-by-rodoku-class-3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/11\/2015 2pm Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52202,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions\/52202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}