{"id":906749,"date":"2026-11-05T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/906749\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:08:15","slug":"japanese-calligraphy-poised-to-join-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/906749\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese calligraphy poised to join UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese calligraphy is set to join UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage list after an evaluation body recommended the traditional art for inscription, paving the way for its formal recognition later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation, announced by the Cultural Affairs Agency on Thursday, found that shod\u014d \u2014 Japanese calligraphy \u2014 met all five criteria for inclusion on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization\u2019s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>A final decision is expected in early December, during the 21st session of UNESCO\u2019s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which will take place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5 in the city of Xiamen, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese calligraphy is set to join UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage list after an evaluation body recommended the traditional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,379262,379261,229,88,32375],"class_list":["post-906749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-calligraphy","tag-cultural-affairs-agency","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}