{"id":128464,"date":"2019-12-17T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=128464&lang=en"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:09:28","slug":"daizenji-oniyo-fire-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/daizenji-oniyo-fire-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Daizenji Oniyo Fire Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

This 1,600-year-old tsuina<\/i> (ceremony to exorcise evil spirits) is one of Japan\u2019s three main fire festivals. After being guarded for seven days, the \u201cdevil fire\u201d is transferred to six enormous, 13 m torches, which are then carried around the grounds by men in loincloths. It\u2019s good luck if the ash falls on you!<\/p>\n

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\u2022 1\/7 (Tue.)
\n\u2022 13:00~23:30 (approx.) *The fire will be lit around 21:00~
\n\u2022 Free (free parking available)
\n\u2022 Daizenji Tamataregu Shrine
\n\u2022 1463-1 Miyamoto, Daizenji-machi, Kurume City<\/a>
\n\u2022 0942-27-1887<\/a>
\n\u2022 http:\/\/tamataregu.or.jp\/oniyo<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (fn253<\/a>, Jan 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 1,600-year-old tsuina (ceremony to exorcise evil spirits) is one of Japan\u2019s three main fire festivals. After being guarded for seven days, the \u201cdevil fire\u201d is transferred to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29354,"featured_media":128465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-128464","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kurume","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/128464","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\/29354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}