{"id":102738,"date":"2017-09-15T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=102738&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:56:06","slug":"sumiyoshi-shrine-reitaisai","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/sumiyoshi-shrine-reitaisai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumiyoshi Shrine Reitaisai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festival is said to have begun as a way of thanking the Sumiyoshi gods for the legendary Empress Jingu\u2019s safe return from Korea by holding <em>sumo<\/em> and archery matches. Children wearing Heian-era clothes march in a parade, and intense, traditional Japanese archery while riding on horseback called <em>yabusame<\/em> will be held. Feel the excitement as elementary students battle it out to be the <em>yokozuna<\/em> (sumo grand champion) in the young men\u2019s <em>sumo<\/em> tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e%CC%80%E2%89%A0i%CC%82Ne%CC%88a%CC%88n%CC%83oe%CC%88A%CC%82a%CC%82O%CC%822.jpg?resize=1024%2C768\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e%CC%80%E2%89%A0i%CC%82Ne%CC%88a%CC%88n%CC%83oe%CC%88A%CC%82a%CC%82O%CC%822.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e%CC%80%E2%89%A0i%CC%82Ne%CC%88a%CC%88n%CC%83oe%CC%88A%CC%82a%CC%82O%CC%822.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/e%CC%80%E2%89%A0i%CC%82Ne%CC%88a%CC%88n%CC%83oe%CC%88A%CC%82a%CC%82O%CC%822.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10\/12 (Thu.) ~ 10\/14 (Sat.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/12 (Thu.): children\u2019s procession 16:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/13 (Fri.): young <em>sumo<\/em> wrestling competition 9:00~12:00, <em>yabusame<\/em> (horseback archery) 11:30~<br \/>\n\u2022 Sumiyoshi Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/r2bdG33SzAu\" target=\"_blank\">3-1-51 Sumiyoshi, Hakata-ku<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 092-291-2670<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/chikuzen-sumiyoshi.or.jp\/event\/autumn.html#detail-03\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chikuzen-sumiyoshi.or.jp\/event\/autumn.html#detail-03 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival is said to have begun as a way of thanking the Sumiyoshi gods for the legendary Empress Jingu\u2019s safe return from Korea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":102739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-102738","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/102738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}