{"id":128482,"date":"2019-12-17T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=128482&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:41:21","slug":"hatsukoshin-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hatsukoshin-festival-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatsukoshin Festival"},"content":{"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 <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 Read more about this unique event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/monkey-masks-on-the-front-door-an-old-hakata-tradition\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/07-hatsukoshin.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/07-hatsukoshin.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/07-hatsukoshin.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/07-hatsukoshin.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1\/18 (Sat.)<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\/njFoqduR65i6nN9q6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1-1-41 Fujisaki, Sawara-ku<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:092-823-0089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">092-823-0089<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn253-web?e=0\">fn253<\/a>, Jan 2020)<\/em><\/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 <em>ningyo<\/em> doll makers. The masks are hung in front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29354,"featured_media":128453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-128482","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-sawara-ku","event-type-culture","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/128482","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=128482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}