{"id":146400,"date":"2022-05-12T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=146400&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:51:08","slug":"tobiume-picking-ritual-at-dazaifu-tenmangu-shrine","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/tobiume-picking-ritual-at-dazaifu-tenmangu-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobiume Picking Ritual at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ritual consists of collecting plums from the &#8220;Tobiume (flying plum tree),&#8221; which is said to have flown overnight from Kyoto in honor of Sugawara Michizane, the deity of Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. The priest shakes the branches of the flying plum tree with green bamboo, and then shrine maidens pick up the fallen plum seeds one by one. After plums are dedicated to the deity, they are made into &#8220;Tobiume Omamori,&#8221; a once-in-a-lifetime good-luck charm. After the ritual is over, priests, priestesses, and staff members simultaneously pick the plum from the 6,000 plum trees in the shrine&#8217;s precincts.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fn_dazaifutemnangu-tobiume-picking_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=1400%2C935&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tobiume Picking Ritual at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, \u592a\u5bb0\u5e9c\u5929\u6e80\u5bae \u98db\u6885\u3061\u304e\u308a\u795e\u4e8b\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fn_dazaifutemnangu-tobiume-picking_2022_cl.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fn_dazaifutemnangu-tobiume-picking_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fn_dazaifutemnangu-tobiume-picking_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fn_dazaifutemnangu-tobiume-picking_2022_cl.jpeg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 5\/18 (Wed.)<br \/>\n\u2022 9:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 Free viewing<br \/>\n\u2022 Dazaifu Tenmangu Honden<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/t951fvFQVvNAaaYi6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-7-1 Saifu, Dazaifu City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/info\/detail\/809\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/info\/detail\/809<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ritual consists of collecting plums from the &#8220;Tobiume (flying plum tree),&#8221; which is said to have flown overnight from Kyoto in honor of Sugawara Michizane, the deity of Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":146401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-146400","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-dazaifu","event-type-culture","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/146400","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}