{"id":114799,"date":"2018-10-22T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=114799&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-10-23T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:35:56","slug":"the-kyushu-basho","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/the-kyushu-basho\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kyushu Basho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Held six times a year around Japan, the final tournament of the year is in Fukuoka this month. For two weeks in November the streets of Fukuoka are made more exciting by the odd glimpse of the <em>rikishi<\/em> (wrestlers), their hulking mass, elegantly fanned top-knot, full <em>kimono<\/em> and aroma of talcum powder making them an easy spot amongst the locals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114801\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1400_sumo.jpg?resize=1400%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1400_sumo.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1400_sumo.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1400_sumo.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1400_sumo.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-114801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9\u65e5\u672c\u76f8\u64b2\u5354\u4f1a<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and click here to read more about the Kyushu tournament:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5XyHzhOU7D\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/experience-sumo-november-tournament\/\">Experience Sumo at the November Tournament<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Experience Sumo at the November Tournament&#8221; &#8212; Fukuoka Now\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/experience-sumo-november-tournament\/embed\/#?secret=aq3q9Qd3uA#?secret=5XyHzhOU7D\" data-secret=\"5XyHzhOU7D\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/11 (Sun.) ~ 11\/25 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tickets: \u00a52,100 ~ \u00a514,800, mid-level box seat (2~4 persons): \u00a59,500<br \/>\n\u2022 Fukuoka Kokusai Center<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/LndG4nJJ2HP2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-2 Chikkohonmachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Ticket information: <a href=\"tel:0570-02-9310\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">0570-02-9310<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sumo.or.jp\/En\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sumo.or.jp\/En\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held six times a year around Japan, the final tournament of the year is in Fukuoka this month. For two weeks in November the streets of Fukuoka are made more exciting by the odd glimpse of the rikishi (wrestlers), their hulking mass, elegantly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":114801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-114799","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata-ku","event-type-culture","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114799","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=114799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}