{"id":261,"date":"2023-07-12T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2024-12-08T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:45:40","slug":"a-tale-of-salamanca-carvers-at-the-rising-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/a-tale-of-salamanca-carvers-at-the-rising-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Salamanca Carvers at the Rising Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We just received a printed copy of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com\/index.php\/home\/article\/view\/607\/135\">Stone Carving for the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Replicas of the Salamancan University Fa\u00e7ade and New Cathedral Nativity Portal<\/a>&#8220;, an article I&#8217;ve written about a very singular project in which my dad took part.<br><br>During the mid-90s, the Plateresque buildings in my hometown were reproduced by local artisans in Villamayor sandstone following the blueprints that my father drew at his small office. Such project, today standing in Gifu, Japan, was possible thanks to the patronage of Empress Michiko, her friend the pipeorgan-maker Hiroshi Tsuji and hispanist Eikichi Hayashiya -then ambassador to Spain-, who lead the fundraising.<br><br>Princess Sayako attended the grand opening in Gifu in 1998 and met the team of Spanish stone carvers. At home we still keep, apart from the original drawings, the cloth Chrysanthemum flower used to signal those allowed to speak to members of the Imperial family.<br><br>[Una an\u00e9cdota para salmantinos: a la inauguraci\u00f3n asisti\u00f3 tambi\u00e9n Pilar Fern\u00e1ndez Labrador, en aquel momento concejala de cultura. Sus trenzas enrolladas tipo princesa Leia (ver google) cautivaron al p\u00fablico femenino japon\u00e9s].<br><br>I must note that the printed edition of the &#8216;Journal of Traditional Architecture and Urbanism&#8217; #3 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/intbau\/\">INTBAU<\/a> is very well edited and pleasant to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com\/index.php\/home\/article\/view\/607\/135\">https:\/\/www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com\/index.php\/home\/article\/view\/607\/135<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just received a printed copy of &#8220;Stone Carving for the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Replicas of the Salamancan University Fa\u00e7ade and New Cathedral Nativity Portal&#8220;, an article I&#8217;ve written about a very singular project in which my dad took part. During the mid-90s, the Plateresque buildings in my hometown were reproduced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/a-tale-of-salamanca-carvers-at-the-rising-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tale of Salamanca Carvers at the Rising Sun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}