{"id":1364,"date":"2026-08-21T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:46:31","slug":"japanese-symbol-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbol of Peace in Japanese: \u548c (Wa) and \u5e73\u548c (Heiwa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/japanese-symbol-for-peace-img-1.jpg\" alt=\"A hand holding a calligraphy brush over paper beside a freshly brushed black kanji character, with an inkstone in the foreground\" \/><figcaption>Brushing a single kanji, ink still wet on the paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The symbol of peace in Japanese is one of two written forms: \u548c (wa), the single kanji for harmony and calm balance, or \u5e73\u548c (heiwa), the ordinary two-character word for peace as the absence of war. \u548c is the compact one that ends up on scrolls, shirts and skin. \u5e73\u548c is the one that plainly says peace. Past the characters, Japan&#8217;s most recognizable peace symbol is not written at all. It is a folded paper crane, and it carries that meaning because of one girl in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_86 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#%E5%92%8C_and_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_The_Two_Written_Symbols_for_Peace\" >\u548c and \u5e73\u548c: The Two Written Symbols for Peace<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#Where_%E5%92%8C_Comes_From_and_Why_It_Reads_as_Harmony\" >Where \u548c Comes From, and Why It Reads as Harmony<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#Heiwa_Heion_Anshin_The_Other_Japanese_Words_for_Peace\" >Heiwa, Heion, Anshin: The Other Japanese Words for Peace<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#The_Paper_Crane_Sadako_Sasaki_and_Hiroshima\" >The Paper Crane, Sadako Sasaki, and Hiroshima<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#Choosing_%E5%92%8C_or_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_for_a_Design_or_a_Tattoo\" >Choosing \u548c or \u5e73\u548c for a Design or a Tattoo<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#FAQs\" >FAQs<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#What_is_the_Japanese_kanji_symbol_for_peace\" >What is the Japanese kanji symbol for peace?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#What_does_heiwa_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_mean_in_English\" >What does heiwa (\u5e73\u548c) mean in English?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#What_is_the_difference_between_%E5%92%8C_and_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C\" >What is the difference between \u548c and \u5e73\u548c?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#What_are_the_other_Japanese_words_for_peace\" >What are the other Japanese words for peace?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-peace\/#Why_is_the_paper_crane_a_Japanese_symbol_of_peace\" >Why is the paper crane a Japanese symbol of peace?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E5%92%8C_and_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_The_Two_Written_Symbols_for_Peace\"><\/span>\u548c and \u5e73\u548c: The Two Written Symbols for Peace<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u548c (wa) and \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) both translate into English as peace, and what separates them is directness. \u548c is a harmony character. It covers social ease, softened tension, balanced relationships, and people or ideas fitting together without conflict, which is why it is not simply a decorative stand-in for the English word peace. \u5e73\u548c is the everyday word for a peaceful state, the one that fits peace after conflict or peace as the opposite of war.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Written form<\/th>\n<th>Reading<\/th>\n<th>What it covers<\/th>\n<th>Best for<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u548c<\/td>\n<td>wa<\/td>\n<td>Harmony, calm balance, peaceful relations, and Japanese style<\/td>\n<td>A one-character design where the message is peaceful harmony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u5e73\u548c<\/td>\n<td>heiwa<\/td>\n<td>Peace as a state, including peace without war or conflict<\/td>\n<td>Wording that has to say peace outright<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u5e73\u548c\u4e3b\u7fa9<\/td>\n<td>heiwa shugi<\/td>\n<td>Pacifism, peace as ideology and policy<\/td>\n<td>Naming the principle rather than the feeling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u5e73\u548c is built out of \u5e73 (flat, even, calm) and \u548c (harmony), so the word itself describes a state where balance is being held rather than a simple gap between wars. That construction is the reason the two forms are so easy to mix up: \u548c is already sitting inside \u5e73\u548c, doing half the work. Written characters are only one half of the picture, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbols\/\">Japanese symbols<\/a> run in two tracks, the writing systems on one side and the visual motifs on the other, and a good deal of what the culture says about peace it says on the motif side instead.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Where_%E5%92%8C_Comes_From_and_Why_It_Reads_as_Harmony\"><\/span>Where \u548c Comes From, and Why It Reads as Harmony<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u548c is eight strokes and combines two parts: \u79be, a stalk of grain, and \u53e3, a mouth. Scholars generally read that pairing as the harmonious sharing of food, which slides naturally into agreement and peace between people. A second reading takes \u79be as a wind instrument such as a panpipe and \u53e3 as its opening, making the character a picture of musical harmony instead. Either way the core idea is things fitting together, and over time it widened from agreement into peace, softening, and eventually into Japanese style itself.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/japanese-symbol-for-peace-img-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging scroll with the kanji \u548c brushed large in cursive black ink above a line of smaller characters, shown beside the full mounted scroll\" \/><figcaption>\u548c in cursive script on a mounted hanging scroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main on-reading is \u30ef (wa). The kun-readings are the useful tell for how the character actually feels in Japanese: \u306a\u3054\u3080 (nagomu), to feel calm or softened, and \u3084\u308f\u3089\u3050 (yawaragu), to soften or ease. \u548c is a common, everyday character taught in Japanese primary school, so readers meet it constantly rather than treating it as something exotic.<\/p>\n<p>Its compounds show the same double life. \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) is peace, \u8abf\u548c (ch\u014dwa) is harmony or balance, and \u548c\u89e3 (wakai) is reconciliation. Then there is the other family, where \u548c means Japanese style: \u548c\u98df (washoku) is Japanese cuisine, \u548c\u98a8 (waf\u016b) is Japanese style, \u548c\u5ba4 (washitsu) is a tatami room, \u548c\u7d19 (washi) is Japanese paper, and \u548c\u670d (wafuku) is <a href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wafuku-guide\/\">the traditional Japanese clothing<\/a> that kimono and yukata belong to. Even the current era name, \u4ee4\u548c (Reiwa), is usually explained with that sense of auspicious harmony.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Heiwa_Heion_Anshin_The_Other_Japanese_Words_for_Peace\"><\/span>Heiwa, Heion, Anshin: The Other Japanese Words for Peace<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Japanese splits peace across eight words that English flattens into one. \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) is peace at the level of society, \u548c (wa) is harmony between people, \u5e73\u7a4f (heion) is a settled personal situation, \u5b89\u5fc3 (anshin) is a secure heart, \u9759\u3051\u3055 (shizukesa) is quiet peacefulness, \u7a4f\u3084\u304b (odayaka) is calm, \u5fc3\u306e\u5e73\u548c (kokoro no heiwa) is inner peace, and \u5b89\u6cf0 (antai) is lasting security. Which one fits depends on whether you mean a country, a room, or your own head.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/japanese-symbol-for-peace-img-3.jpg\" alt=\"Four visitors sitting on a wooden veranda looking out at the raked gravel and moss-ringed rocks of the Ryoanji zen garden in Kyoto\" \/><figcaption>Visitors at Ryoanji, where quiet is the point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u5e73\u548c (heiwa) is peace at the level of society and ideology. It became especially loaded for Japan after the Second World War, and it is the word inside \u4e16\u754c\u5e73\u548c (sekai heiwa), world peace.<\/li>\n<li>\u548c (wa) is harmony and balance, and it carries the idea of putting the group ahead of personal interest, which is treated as what keeps conflict low in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>\u5e73\u7a4f (heion) pairs \u5e73 (flat, calm) with \u7a4f (gentle, mild). Compared with heiwa it is personal and situational: your surroundings and daily life are settled, not the world.<\/li>\n<li>\u5b89\u5fc3 (anshin) is \u5b89 (safe) plus \u5fc3 (heart), literally a peaceful heart. It is the peace of knowing nothing bad is about to happen.<\/li>\n<li>\u9759\u3051\u3055 (shizukesa) is quiet peacefulness, and the quiet is atmospheric rather than a volume reading. It is the word for a tea ceremony or a walk through a zen garden.<\/li>\n<li>\u7a4f\u3084\u304b (odayaka) describes calm things and calm people, a sea with no waves or someone who rarely argues.<\/li>\n<li>\u5fc3\u306e\u5e73\u548c (kokoro no heiwa) is inner peace or peace of mind, a concept valued in Buddhist and mindfulness traditions and reached by letting go of anxieties rather than by winning anything.<\/li>\n<li>\u5b89\u6cf0 (antai) is \u5b89 (safe) plus \u6cf0 (calm, stable), a formal word for lasting peace and security, used for a whole country or for a position that is not going anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u30d4\u30fc\u30b9 (piisu) exists too, the English word written in katakana, and it is casual to the point of being slang. In practice Japanese people use it for the two-finger gesture in photographs, which is worth separating out: the V sign is called a peace sign, but it is not a written Japanese translation of peace. If a design has to say peace, the word doing that job is \u5e73\u548c.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Paper_Crane_Sadako_Sasaki_and_Hiroshima\"><\/span>The Paper Crane, Sadako Sasaki, and Hiroshima<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The crane was a traditional symbol of luck in Japan long before it was a symbol of peace, and the thing that turned it is a single biography. Sadako Sasaki (1943 to 1955) died of injuries caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and during her final illness she began folding paper cranes, following the tradition that whoever folds a thousand of them is granted a wish. The book <em>Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes<\/em> carried the story worldwide, and it has shaped peace movements ever since.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/japanese-symbol-for-peace-img-4.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of brightly coloured folded paper cranes strung in dense curtains at a Hiroshima peace memorial\" \/><figcaption>Strings of folded cranes left at a Hiroshima memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That thousand-crane set has a name, \u5343\u7fbd\u9db4 (senbazuru), and folding one is still an act people perform rather than a story they tell. Japanese school children dedicate senbazuru at the memorial to Sadako in Hiroshima Peace Park, and August 6 has become an annual peace day observed across Japan. Folded cranes are also what fills the peace museums, in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki, where they are displayed rather than tucked away.<\/p>\n<p>There is a second, quieter symbol in those same parks that outsiders tend to miss. Water. Fountains, water sources and pools are built into the peace museums as memorials, because survivors described the injured, children among them, asking for water while they were in pain. Visitors leave water bottles at the monuments as tributes for the same reason. Moravian University students who studied in Japan wrote up <a href=\"https:\/\/news.moravian.edu\/2019\/09\/04\/japan-symbols-of-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how the water and the cranes work together across those sites<\/a>, and the pairing tells you something about the Japanese approach: the symbol is usually an object someone hands over, not an emblem someone designs.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that with how the West arrived at its peace symbols. The circled peace sign is <a href=\"https:\/\/cnduk.org\/the-symbol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 1958 design by Gerald Holtom<\/a> built from the semaphore signals for N and D, for nuclear disarmament, and the olive branch reaches back to 5th century BC Greece, where it stood for plenty and was believed to drive off evil spirits. Japan&#8217;s contribution to that vocabulary is a folded bird, and it is roughly seventy years old.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Choosing_%E5%92%8C_or_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_for_a_Design_or_a_Tattoo\"><\/span>Choosing \u548c or \u5e73\u548c for a Design or a Tattoo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For a single verified glyph, \u548c is the choice, and the honest label for it is peaceful harmony or calm balance rather than peace. It is short, visually balanced, and recognizable without reading as a slogan. When the wording has to say peace outright, especially peace as the absence of war, use \u5e73\u548c and let it be two characters. The safest short copy for either is the plainest one: \u548c means peaceful harmony, \u5e73\u548c means peace.<\/p>\n<p>Two cautions come with it. A tattoo is permanent, so confirm the nuance and the script with a qualified Japanese speaker before committing, and do not present \u548c as a generic anti-war statement, because that is not the weight the character carries. Scope is the real decision here, the same way it is with <a href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-love\/\">\u611b and \u604b, the two kanji for love<\/a>, or with <a href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/japanese-symbol-for-strength\/\">\u529b and \u5f37 for strength<\/a>. Pick the character whose range matches what you actually mean, then label it in English so nobody has to guess.<\/p>\n<p>Kamicrew is a Japanese-fashion apparel label, and it builds its prints around exactly this kind of imagery, kanji and motif both, so if \u548c or the crane is the part that stuck with you, our <a href=\"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/collections\/japanese-shirt\">Japanese-print shirts<\/a> are where it turns into something you can wear.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FAQs\"><\/span>FAQs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Japanese_kanji_symbol_for_peace\"><\/span>What is the Japanese kanji symbol for peace?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For a single kanji, \u548c (wa) is the usual answer, since it means harmony, calm balance and peaceful relations. For the direct everyday word, especially peace without war or conflict, \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) is clearer. \u548c is eight strokes and \u5e73\u548c adds \u5e73 in front of it.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_does_heiwa_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C_mean_in_English\"><\/span>What does heiwa (\u5e73\u548c) mean in English?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Peace, in the ordinary sense of a peaceful state. The word combines \u5e73 (flat, even, calm) with \u548c (harmony), so it describes peace as a balance being held rather than only the absence of fighting. It is the word in \u4e16\u754c\u5e73\u548c (sekai heiwa), world peace.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_difference_between_%E5%92%8C_and_%E5%B9%B3%E5%92%8C\"><\/span>What is the difference between \u548c and \u5e73\u548c?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u548c is one character focused on harmony, balance and calm relations. \u5e73\u548c is the two-character word for peace, particularly a peaceful state without war. In practice \u548c suits a compact design about harmony, while \u5e73\u548c is what you use when the text has to say peace.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_other_Japanese_words_for_peace\"><\/span>What are the other Japanese words for peace?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Several, split by scale. \u5e73\u7a4f (heion) is a settled personal situation, \u5b89\u5fc3 (anshin) is feeling secure, \u9759\u3051\u3055 (shizukesa) is quiet peacefulness, \u7a4f\u3084\u304b (odayaka) is calm, \u5fc3\u306e\u5e73\u548c (kokoro no heiwa) is inner peace, \u5b89\u6cf0 (antai) is lasting security, and \u5e73\u548c\u4e3b\u7fa9 (heiwa shugi) is pacifism as a policy.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_the_paper_crane_a_Japanese_symbol_of_peace\"><\/span>Why is the paper crane a Japanese symbol of peace?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Because of Sadako Sasaki, who died in 1955 of injuries from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and folded paper cranes during her illness, following the tradition that a thousand folded cranes earn a wish. Since then a thousand cranes, \u5343\u7fbd\u9db4 (senbazuru), have been dedicated at Hiroshima memorials, and the crane has read as peace far beyond Japan.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[\n{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the Japanese kanji symbol for peace?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"For a single kanji, \u548c (wa) is the usual answer, since it means harmony, calm balance and peaceful relations. For the direct everyday word, especially peace without war or conflict, \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) is clearer. \u548c is eight strokes and \u5e73\u548c adds \u5e73 in front of it.\"}},\n{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What does heiwa (\u5e73\u548c) mean in English?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Peace, in the ordinary sense of a peaceful state. 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Since then a thousand cranes, \u5343\u7fbd\u9db4 (senbazuru), have been dedicated at Hiroshima memorials, and the crane has read as peace far beyond Japan.\"}}\n]}\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The symbol of peace in Japanese is \u548c (wa) for harmony or \u5e73\u548c (heiwa) for peace itself, plus the paper crane Hiroshima turned into a symbol of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-style"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamicrew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}