{"id":15404,"date":"2017-09-10T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/?p=15404"},"modified":"2017-09-10T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T08:26:46","slug":"autumn-festivals-in-japan-10092017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/15404","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Festivals in Japan (10\/09\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000People are carrying <em>omikoshis<\/em> portable shrines on their shoulders and kids playing musical instruments to celebrate the arrival of autumn Tokyo and full moon.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_01.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_01-314x235.jpg 314w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_01-448x336.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000Here are some photos taken of children and grownups in the Hiroo area in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_02.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_02-314x235.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u3000The fifteenth of the eighth month in the ancient calendar (sometime between mid-September and the beginning of October in the modern day) is known as <em>juugoya<\/em>, the night of the full moon. This is the night of the harvest moon, also said to be the most beautiful moon of the year. On this night, there is a ceremony to show thanks and pray for a successful seasonal harvest for produce such as rice. Japanese pampas grass which resemble rice stalks is used as decoration, while <em>dango<\/em> which resemble the moon are used as an offering and a snack whilst taking in the gorgeous night sky.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_03.jpg 448w, http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/170910_03-314x235.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/center><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000People are carrying <em>omikoshis<\/em> portable shrines on their shoulders and kids playing musical instruments to celebrate the arrival of autumn Tokyo and full moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}