{"id":117238,"date":"2019-12-11T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=117238&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:16:21","slug":"kasuga-no-muko-oshi-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kasuga-no-muko-oshi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasuga no Muko-oshi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This special bridegroom festival sees newlyweds put on <em>shimekomi<\/em> loincloths before engaging in a range of religious rituals. During the Taru-seri section of the event, up to 50 grooms fight for possession of a sacred <em>sake<\/em> barrel in a pond located just in front of Kasuga Shrine. The ceremony comes to a close with the newlyweds parading around a bonfire. The festival was designated as an important intangible folk cultural property in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kasuga-muko-coll.jpg?resize=900%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kasuga-muko-coll.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kasuga-muko-coll.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kasuga-muko-coll.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1\/12 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 19:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Kasuga Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/x6LcTMbbLAJ2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1-110 Kasuga, Kasuga City<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:092-581-7551\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">092-581-7551<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasugajinjya.jp\/event\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kasugajinjya.jp\/event\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This special bridegroom festival sees newlyweds put on <em>shimekomi<\/em> loincloths before engaging in a range of religious rituals. During the Taru-seri section of the event, up to 50 grooms fight for possession of a sacred <em>sake<\/em> barrel in a pond located just in front of Kasuga Shrine. The ceremony comes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":117239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-117238","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\/117238","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=117238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}