{"id":109379,"date":"2018-04-18T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=109379&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T09:43:03","slug":"jozenji-temple-fuji-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/jozenji-temple-fuji-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Jozenji Temple Fuji Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locals and tourists alike make the journey to see Jozenji Temple\u2019s wisteria, which are designated natural monuments of Fukuoka Prefecture. The flowers of these 500-year-old plants cascade down as far as 1.5 m. These wisteria are called Kojo no Fuji and the plant has become the symbol of Fukutsu. A festival is held every year around Golden Week, which is when the wisteria are in full bloom; around 50 Zen priests gather for a <em>shakuhachi<\/em> (bamboo flute) performance and to pray for a prolonged life. <\/p>\n<p><strong>For more details, click here for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/wisteria-guide\/\">Fukuoka Wisteria Guide 2018<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-jozenji.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-jozenji.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-jozenji.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-jozenji.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 4\/29 (Sun., hol.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Jozenji Temple<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/VufMDyrsqRG2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3624 Benjou, Fukuchi-machi, Tagawa, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:0947-22-0637\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">0947-22-0637<\/a> (Jozenji Temple)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-chousonkai.gr.jp\/event\/detail32.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.f-chousonkai.gr.jp\/event\/detail32.html<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locals and tourists alike make the journey to see Jozenji Temple\u2019s wisteria, which are designated natural monuments of Fukuoka Prefecture. The flowers of these 500-year-old plants cascade down as far as 1.5 m. A festival is held every year around Golden Week, which is when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":109162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-109379","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/109379","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\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}