{"id":469,"date":"2014-04-24T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-04-24T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:55:42","slug":"takada-castle-cherry-blossom-viewing-event-by-shingo-kawamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140424_469.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Takada Castle Cherry Blossom Viewing Event&#8221; by Shingo Kawamura"},"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\/staff\/20140424_469.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\/staff\/20140424_469.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Takada Castle Cherry Blossom Viewing Event&#8221; by Shingo Kawamura\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p>On April 19 (Sat), Kodo performed at the &#8220;Takada Castle Cherry Blossom Viewing Event&#8221; at Takada Castle, which is renowned as one of &#8220;Japan&#8217;s Top 3 Evening Cherry Blossom Spots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4553.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-981 aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: Tomohiro Mitome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4553-340x255.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We worried about the weather as it was raining there the day before the performance. But luckily a beautiful blue sky welcomed us all on the performance day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4554.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-982 aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: Tomohiro Mitome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4554-340x255.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We gave two performances and the second one started at 18:00. It was chilly at night, but many people came to see our performance! We were very glad to see everyone there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4616.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-983\" alt=\"Photo: Tomohiro Mitome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4616-340x255.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The performance was a week after the cherry blossom season peak, so the cherry blossom petals had started to fall from the trees&#8230; but everyone got to see some surprise petals on the Kodo stage!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4634.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-984\" alt=\"Photo: Tomohiro Mitome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CIMG4634-340x255.jpeg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just confetti, it&#8217;s a special cherry blossom version! At these performances, beautiful, real cherry blossom petals flew out from Chieko\u2019s fan.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you everyone that came along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 19 (Sat), Kodo performed at the &#8220;Takada Castle Cherry Blossom Viewing Event&#8221; at Takada Castle, which is renowned as one of &#8220;Japan&#8217;s Top 3 Evening Cherry Blossom Spots.&#8221; We worried about the weather as it was raining there the day before the performance. But luckily a beautiful blue sky welcomed us all on the performance day. We gave two performances and the second one started at 18:00. It was chilly at night, but many people came to see our performance! We were very glad to see everyone there. The performance was a week after the cherry blossom season peak, so the cherry blossom petals had started to fall &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140424_469.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}