{"id":116565,"date":"2018-12-14T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T07:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=116565&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T07:40:48","slug":"hatsukoshin-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hatsukoshin-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatsukoshin Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/hatsu-koshin-and-monkey-masks-an-interesting-combination-of-old-beliefs\/\">A New Year custom<\/a> in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine from early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata <em>ningyo<\/em> doll makers. The masks are hung in front of houses to ward off evil spirits, as the Japanese word for \u201cmonkey\u201d (<em>saru<\/em>) is a homophone of the word \u201cgo away.\u201d<\/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\/08-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=1000%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/08-Hatsukousin.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/08-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/08-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1\/23 (Wed.)<br \/>\n\u2022 5:30~19:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entry (monkey mask: \u00a51,000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Sarutahiko Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/mjzWB3xSYLN2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1-41 Fujisaki, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/<\/a><\/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\/09-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=1000%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/09-Hatsukousin.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/09-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/09-Hatsukousin.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year custom in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine from early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata ningyo doll makers. The masks are hung in front of houses to ward off evil spirits, as the Japanese word for \u201cmonkey\u201d (saru) is a homophone of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":116566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-116565","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-sawara-ku","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/116565","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=116565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}