{"id":46,"date":"2007-10-11T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=39&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-10-11T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T10:36:07","slug":"how-to-fold-a-hakama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/how-to-fold-a-hakama\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fold a Hakama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to fold a hakama (that&#39;s the pleated skirt-like thing worn when practicing arts like aikido and kendo). The important thing is that it is done at the end of a class, and that it is done intricately, so that by the time you&#39;ve finished folding it everyone else has finished putting the mats away. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fbd_image_caption\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 4px 0px; width: 300px; float: left\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graphics\/blog\/hakama_300_x_309.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"folded hakama\" title=\"folded hakama\" width=\"300\" height=\"309\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> The exquisite <em>chirashi udon<\/em> or &quot;scattered noodle&quot; style of hakama folding<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last night I was lucky to witness one of the most intricate examples of hakama folding &mdash; this is the rare <em>chirashi udon<\/em> style, rarely seen outside of Japan. It&#39;s amazing that this knowledge is out there, and that those who have mastered it are passing amongst us, even here in the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways to fold a hakama (that&#39;s the pleated skirt-like thing worn when practicing arts like aikido and kendo). The important thing is that it is done at the end of a class, and that it is done intricately, so that by the time you&#39;ve finished folding it everyone else has finished putting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/how-to-fold-a-hakama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to fold a Hakama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}