{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Kyoto Journal - Kyotographie - Sharing Visions - The Heartwork of Kyoto Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/ja","author_name":"david-emrich","author_url":"https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/ja\/author\/david-emrich\/","title":"Rice Enso photograms - Kyoto Journal - Kyotographie - Sharing Visions - The Heartwork of Kyoto Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LvetD9oyKZ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/ja\/rice-enso-photograms\/\">\u7c73\u306e\u5186\u76f8\u306e\u30d5\u30a9\u30c8\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/ja\/rice-enso-photograms\/embed\/#?secret=LvetD9oyKZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Rice Enso photograms&#8221; &#8212; Kyoto Journal - Kyotographie - Sharing Visions - The Heartwork of Kyoto Journal\" data-secret=\"LvetD9oyKZ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rice-enso.webp","thumbnail_width":625,"thumbnail_height":2000,"description":"Following the earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011, a letter arrived in photo-artist Ed Heckerman\u2019s inbox from a young Japanese friend, Murakami Iwauko, asking a favor: \u201cCan you make more artwork with rice?\u201d Following the collapse of the Fukushima reactor, many feared their rice, a daily staple, may have been irradiated. Rice is a foundation of Japanese culture, and this was a time of great fear and uncertainty. Believing rice to be a highly symbolic subject in this context, Murakami asked eight friends to send rice to Heckerman from various locations in Japan\u2014Niigata, Ibaraki, Akita, Fukushima, Aomori, Hokkaid\u014d, Miyagi, and Chiba. After some rumination, the enso (the Zen circle) [&hellip;]"}