{"id":114575,"date":"2025-02-25T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=114575"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:06:07","slug":"a-woven-bamboo-object-found-in-an-antique-shop-in-kyoto-japan-i-believe-the-owner-said-it-had-something-to-do-with-tea-does-anyone-know-what-this-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/a-woven-bamboo-object-found-in-an-antique-shop-in-kyoto-japan-i-believe-the-owner-said-it-had-something-to-do-with-tea-does-anyone-know-what-this-is\/","title":{"rendered":"A woven bamboo object found in an antique shop in Kyoto, Japan. I believe the owner said it had something to do with tea. Does anyone know what this is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"color:' font-size:><strong>A woven bamboo object found in an antique shop in Kyoto, Japan. I believe the owner said it had something to do with tea. Does anyone know what this is?<br>\n<span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-114579 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/A-woven-bamboo-object-found-in-an-antique-shop-in-Kyoto-Japan.-I-believe-the-owner-said-it-had-something-to-do-with-tea.-Does-anyone-know-what-this-is.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"728\"' height='\"971\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-woven-bamboo-object-found-in-an-antique-shop-in-Kyoto-Japan.-I-believe-the-owner-said-it-had-something-to-do-with-tea.-Does-anyone-know-what-this-is.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>Answer: \u201cI actually know this. These are tiny mockups of what they used to use on riversides to stop erosion. Now they\u2019re mostly just decorations or hashi holders (chopsticks holders, but they have much smaller ones; I have some in my cup), so your food-covered hashi doesn\u2019t touch the table.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woven bamboo object found in an antique shop in Kyoto, Japan. I believe the owner said it had something to do with tea. Does anyone know what this is? Answer: \u201cI actually know this. These are tiny mockups of what they used to use on riversides to stop erosion. Now they\u2019re mostly just decorations\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-hacks"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-woven-bamboo-object-found-in-an-antique-shop-in-Kyoto-Japan.-I-believe-the-owner-said-it-had-something-to-do-with-tea.-Does-anyone-know-what-this-is.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114580,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114575\/revisions\/114580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></span></span></strong></span></p>