{"id":67960,"date":"2016-12-11T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67960"},"modified":"2016-11-05T23:13:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:13:24","slug":"hanasaka-jiisan-the-old-man-who-made-flowers-bloom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67960","title":{"rendered":"Hanasaka Jiisan (The Old Man Who Made Flowers Bloom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 11  02:30pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hanasaka.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[67960]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hanasaka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Japan\u2019s most popular mukashi banashi folktales comes to life through the playful interpretation of beloved all-male contemporary dance company Condors, led by Ryohei Kondo. Chock-full of high-octane dance, spirited music, kamishibai (picture storytelling), colorful costumes and props and lots of humor, Hanasaka Jiisan, which recognizes the importance of honesty and kindness, promises to delight all ages.<\/p>\n<p>As a perfect prelude, New York-based Japanese puppet artist Maiko Kikuchi offers her witty PINK BUNNY, a parade of the most unlikely of objects assembled in a work to remind us that nothing is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/hanasaka-jiisan-the-old-man-who-made-flowers-bloom\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 11 02:30pm 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-67960","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\/67960","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=67960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67961,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67960\/revisions\/67961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}