{"id":190,"date":"2020-04-22T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-04-30T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:36:37","slug":"the-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/the-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Executioner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.13.1-823x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" width=\"450\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.13.1-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.13.1-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.13.1-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/files\/2020\/04\/2019.13.1.jpg 2031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption> Felice Beato (British, b. Italy, 1832\u20131909) <br><em>The Executioner<\/em>, 1860s <br>Hand-colored albumen silver print from wet collodion glass-plate negative <br>Miami University Art Museum <br>2019.13.1 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian-British photographer Felice Beato was based in Japan from 1863 to 1884. In this scene he recreates the execution of Shimidzu Seiji, a Japanese man who murdered two British officers around that time. The studio backdrop includes Mt. Fuji, a famous Japanese religious pilgrimage destination highly romanticized in popular tourist travel-prints and photographs. Beheading by sword was a common capital punishment in the East at the time. Its inclusion in this collection was most likely designed to shock Western viewers as well as feed their desire to understand the East as suspended in a barbaric past. Ironically, \u201cbarbarian\u201d was also a common term used by the Japanese to describe Western foreigners.   -Written by Maria Jose DeSantiago Galan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Italian-British photographer Felice Beato was based in Japan from 1863 to 1884. In this scene he recreates the execution of Shimidzu Seiji, a Japanese man <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/2020\/04\/the-executioner\/\" title=\"The Executioner\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2926,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/muam-capsp20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}