{"id":128,"date":"2014-01-17T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=128"},"modified":"2014-02-24T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:33:14","slug":"kodo-village-dondo-yaki-by-mariko-omi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140117_128.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kodo Village Dondo-yaki&#8221; by Mariko Omi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140117_128.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=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20140117_128.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;Kodo Village Dondo-yaki&#8221; by Mariko Omi\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had our village &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; today, which we always have on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year, January. &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; is a New Year&#8217;s bonfire when we burn New Year&#8217;s decorations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/37e3808047553cedb34daa9b1d7ab2a3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"photo: Mariko Omi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/37e3808047553cedb34daa9b1d7ab2a3.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the early evening we started to gather around, we sang a &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; song, and set the fire alight.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt Kodo Village, we also burn the broken drumsticks we used lovingly throughout the past year and send our appreciation to the skies with them as the smoke floats up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Surprised at times by the popping sound of burning bamboo and jumping sparks, we surround the fire roasting and eating dried cuttlefish, mochi, mandarin oranges and sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The penetrating cold air &amp; the warmth of the fire<br \/>\nThe slight burnt taste of the roasted mochi<br \/>\nLooking up to see the moon\u2026<br \/>\nI&#8217;m always in the rehearsal hall at this time of night, so it was nice to be outside and have my five senses stimulated by nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our village &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; today, which we always have on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year, January. &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; is a New Year&#8217;s bonfire when we burn New Year&#8217;s decorations. In the early evening we started to gather around, we sang a &#8220;Dondo-yaki&#8221; song, and set the fire alight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}