{"id":150760,"date":"2022-12-19T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=150760&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:32:26","slug":"hatsukoshin-festival-5","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hatsukoshin-festival-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatsukoshin Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year custom in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine in the early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata ningyo doll makers. The masks are hung in front of houses to ward off evil spirits, as the Japanese word for \u201cmonkey\u201d (saru) 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>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_sarutahiko-hatsukoshin_2021-cl-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C844&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hatsukoshin Festival, \u521d\u5e9a\u7533\uff08\u306f\u3064\u3053\u3046\u3057\u3093\uff09\u733f\u7530\u5f66\u795e\u793e\" width=\"1400\" height=\"844\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_sarutahiko-hatsukoshin_2021-cl-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_sarutahiko-hatsukoshin_2021-cl-001.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_sarutahiko-hatsukoshin_2021-cl-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C617&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fn_sarutahiko-hatsukoshin_2021-cl-001.jpg?resize=768%2C463&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarutahiko Shrine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1\/2 (Mon.)<br \/>\n\u2022 7:00~18:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entry (monkey mask: \u00a51,000)<br \/>\n\u2022 Sarutahiko Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/6jpbVmZ3HdAbuJ7XA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1-41 Fujisaki, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sarutahiko-fukuoka.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyushu Live &#8211; Video Report<\/strong><br \/>\nFukuoka&#8217;s Monkey Mask Festival &#8211; Virtual Tour Japan \/ \u521d\u5e9a\u7533 \u733f\u7530\u5f66\u795e\u793e 2022<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zTAXE1AENn4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/zTAXE1AENn4<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTAXE1AENn4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year custom in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine in the early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata ningyo doll makers. The masks are hung in front of houses &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":143767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-150760","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-sawara-ku","event-type-culture","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/150760","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=150760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}