{"id":1726,"date":"2014-09-04T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2014-09-04T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:22:53","slug":"ogi-matsuri-by-mitsuru-ishizuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140904_1726.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ogi Matsuri!&#8221; by Mitsuru Ishizuka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140904_1726.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140904_1726.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Ogi Matsuri!&#8221; by Mitsuru Ishizuka\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Aug. 29 Ogi Matsuri Daiko<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-2-340x453.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-1mari.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-1mari-340x453.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Mariko Omi\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Every year after Earth Celebration, the local festival &#8220;Ogi Matsuri&#8221; winds up the summer season.<\/p>\n<p>During the festival, the Kodo members and apprentices take part by pulling\u00a0a taiko cart around the streets of Ogi, going from house to house to play taiko as a sign of our appreciation to the townsfolk who look after us all year long.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC05573yui1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC05573yui1-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Yui Kawamoto\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0674.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0674-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Yuki Nakagawa\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Since I left the Kodo Village dormitory to live in Ogi, every year the Kodo cart also stops by my house to play taiko. As the thunderous roar of Kodo&#8217;s taiko gets closer and closer to my house, it makes my heart beat louder, and it&#8217;s a bit heartstopping, too&#8230; our sound certainly packs a punch!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8294979eri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8294979eri-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Eri Uchida\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0763-f_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0763-f_11-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Yuki Nakagawa\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In any case, our summer ended well again this year, thanks to everyone in Ogi. THANK YOU!!!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0677.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0677-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Yuki Nakagawa\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8294997.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P8294997-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Eri Uchida\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/mitsuru_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-620\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mitsuru_s.jpg\" alt=\"mitsuru_s\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 29 Ogi Matsuri Daiko Every year after Earth Celebration, the local festival &#8220;Ogi Matsuri&#8221; winds up the summer season. During the festival, the Kodo members and apprentices take part by pulling\u00a0a taiko cart around the streets of Ogi, going from house to house to play taiko as a sign of our appreciation to the townsfolk who look after us all year long. Since I left the Kodo Village dormitory to live in Ogi, every year the Kodo cart also stops by my house to play taiko. As the thunderous roar of Kodo&#8217;s taiko gets closer and closer to my house, it makes my heart beat louder, and it&#8217;s a &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140904_1726.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,41,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}