{"id":120994,"date":"2019-05-17T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=120994&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:37:53","slug":"miyajidake-shrine-iris-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/miyajidake-shrine-iris-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyajidake Shrine Iris Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miyajidake Shrine, known for its beautiful stairway and path connecting the shrine to the sea, is also where you can see 100,000 Edo Japanese irises (100 species) in bloom. On May 31 (Fri.), a special ritual will take place in which Shinto priests make the first iris harvest and offer the flowers to the gods. To coincide with the iris festival, the shrine is offering a special <em>goshuin<\/em> (shrine seal hand-painted on a <em>goshuincho<\/em> or special book for collecting shrine seals) from May 17 (Fri.) to Jun. 16 (Sun.). <\/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\/05\/miyajidake-irises.jpg?resize=1400%2C935&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-irises.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-irises.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-irises.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-irises.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 5\/26 (Sun.) ~ 6\/10 (Mon.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Iris First Harvest Ritual: 5\/31 (Fri.) 10:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 Timing varies<br \/>\n\u2022 Free (free parking available)<br \/>\n\u2022 Miyajidake Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/LMmMNmnvJGiJw9dT6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-1 Miyaji-motomachi, Fukutsu City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:0940-52-0016\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">0940-52-0016<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miyajidake.or.jp\/news\/topics\/\u83d6\u84b2\u796d\u308a\u306e\u300c\u5fa1\u6731\u5370\u300d\u671f\u9593\u9650\u5b9a\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.miyajidake.or.jp\/news\/topics\/\u83d6\u84b2\u796d\u308a\u306e\u300c\u5fa1\u6731\u5370\u300d\u671f\u9593\u9650\u5b9a<\/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\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-special-seal.jpg?resize=1256%2C1304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1256\" height=\"1304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-special-seal.jpg?w=1256&amp;ssl=1 1256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-special-seal.jpg?resize=289%2C300&amp;ssl=1 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-special-seal.jpg?resize=768%2C797&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/miyajidake-special-seal.jpg?resize=986%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> All photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/miyajidake\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u5bae\u5730\u5dbd\u795e\u793e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miyajidake Shrine, known for its beautiful stairway and path connecting the shrine to the sea, is also where you can see 100,000 Edo Japanese irises (100 species) in bloom. On May 31 (Fri.), a special ritual will take place in which Shinto priests make the first iris harvest and offer the flowers to the gods. To coincide with the iris festival, the shrine is offering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":120996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-120994","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\/120994","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=120994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}