{"id":753,"date":"2014-05-21T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T23:12:39","slug":"the-second-day-at-sanja-matsuri-in-asakusa-by-naomi-iseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140521_753.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Second Day 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_753.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_753.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;The Second Day 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<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Second Day at Sanja Matsuri<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"0517-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-4-340x255.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-10-340x255.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each portable shrine (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">mikoshi<\/span>) was\u00a0purified at Asakusa Shrine and then carried\u00a0out into the town of Asakusa.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"0517-9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-9-340x255.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"0517-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-12-340x255.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The costume is different for each district, so\u00a0the atmosphere is also different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1358\" alt=\"0517-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-8-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The local children were doing their best, too!<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-1-340x453.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-5-340x255.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"0517-7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-7-340x255.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I came across the portable shrines wherever I went.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1362\" alt=\"Photo: Naomi Iseki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0517-2-340x255.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was such an exciting day for the locals carrying the portable shrines, and for spectators like me, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Day at Sanja Matsuri Each portable shrine (mikoshi) was\u00a0purified at Asakusa Shrine and then carried\u00a0out into the town of Asakusa. The costume is different for each district, so\u00a0the atmosphere is also different. The local children were doing their best, too! I came across the portable shrines wherever I went. It was such an exciting day for the locals carrying the portable shrines, and for spectators like me, too!<\/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\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}