{"id":116512,"date":"2018-12-12T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=116512&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T08:40:24","slug":"fukuoka-gishi-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/fukuoka-gishi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Gishi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This festival is held to honor those involved in the 18th century historical incident known as the Revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin. A tea offering to the gods will be held in front of the graves. There will also be a Chikuzen <em>biwa<\/em> (Japanese lute and designated Intangible Cultural Property of Fukuoka) performance as well as a gun salute using historic rifles. You can also try <em>soba<\/em>, which was the meal of the 47 <em>samurai<\/em> before they committed their raid.<\/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\/12\/gishisai.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gishisai.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gishisai.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gishisai.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gishisai.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: Fukuoka City<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 12\/14 (Fri.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10:30~15:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Koshuzenji Temple<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/q9UEsTPnW9s\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-22-11 Terazuka, Minami-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:092-511-4231\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">092-511-4231<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/dayori.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/63947\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dayori.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/63947\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This festival is held to honor those involved in the 18th century historical incident known as the Revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin. A tea offering to the gods will be held in front of the graves. There will also be a Chikuzen biwa (Japanese lute and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":116513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-116512","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-minami-ku","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/116512","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=116512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}