{"id":746,"date":"2014-05-21T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=746"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:17:07","slug":"1st-night-at-sanja-matsuri-in-asakusa-by-naomi-iseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140521_746.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First Night at Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa&#8221; by Naomi Iseki"},"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\/20140521_746.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\/20140521_746.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;First Night at Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa&#8221; by Naomi Iseki\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I also went to see the festival Sanja Matsuri at night on the first day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1349\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/2-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The six portable shrines that were in front of Asakusa Public Hall came and went through Kaminarimon Gate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1347\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here comes a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">tengu<\/span>, a long\u2010nosed goblin! His gold eyes are so striking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1348\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/5-340x453.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The lanterns on the portable shrines were lit up at night and it was very beautiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1346\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/6-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And there were people, people and more people! The festival is in full swing!<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140510oet_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/oet\/index_en.html#schedule05a\" target=\"_blank\">[June 21-25 Kodo Asakusa Performances]<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also went to see the festival Sanja Matsuri at night on the first day. The six portable shrines that were in front of Asakusa Public Hall came and went through Kaminarimon Gate. Here comes a tengu, a long\u2010nosed goblin! His gold eyes are so striking. The lanterns on the portable shrines were lit up at night and it was very beautiful. And there were people, people and more people! The festival is in full swing! Kodo One Earth Tour 2014: Mystery [June 21-25 Kodo Asakusa Performances] &nbsp;<\/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":[87,6,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}