{"id":19126,"date":"2009-11-30T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:30:43","slug":"pioneering-actor-hisaya-morishige-passes-away-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/pioneering-actor-hisaya-morishige-passes-away-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Actor Hisaya Morishige Passes Away at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nn20091111a3a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nn20091111a3a-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hisaya Morishige\" title=\"Hisaya Morishige\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nn20091111a3a-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nn20091111a3a.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>96 year old distinguished actor Hisaya Morishige passed away of natural causes on November 10. Morishige was respected as one of Japan&#8217;s most famous modern actors and as the president of the Japan Actors Union. His connections to anime include performing all of the male voices in Toei&#8217;s 1958 anime film Hakujaden, Japan&#8217;s first color anime film, and playing Okkotonushi the boar god in director Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s 1997 film Princess Mononoke.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-11-28\/pioneering-actor-hisaya-morishige-passes-away-at-96\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>96 year old distinguished actor Hisaya Morishige passed away of natural causes on November 10. Morishige was respected as one of Japan&#8217;s most famous modern actors and as the president of the Japan Actors Union. His connections to anime include performing all of the male voices in Toei&#8217;s 1958 anime film Hakujaden, Japan&#8217;s first color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19139,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}