{"id":14623,"date":"2026-04-16T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:05:53","slug":"melissa-larochelle-gosho-ningyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/melissa-larochelle-gosho-ningyo","title":{"rendered":"Melissa LaRochelle: Gosho Ningyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Spring 2026, I decided to participate in making Gosho Ningyo, a traditional Japanese doll art form. I studied with Yuji and Shoho Okamoto sensei in Osaka every week, working together to complete one Gosho doll by April 2026.<\/p>\n

I enjoy creative activities but as someone coming from a sewing background, I was started from zero in terms of knowledge. But, with patience on my end and my professors, I was able to learn a lot; not just how to make a Gosho doll, but the traditional aspects of Japanese craftsmanship as a whole.<\/p>\n

If you are someone with an interest in traditional Japanese dolls or craftsmanship in general, I definitely recommend giving Gosho ningyo and try! I do recommend studying Kansai-ben!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Spring 2026, I decided to participate in making Gosho Ningyo, a traditional Japanese doll art form. I stud … \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14623"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14627,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}