{"id":170933,"date":"2025-05-14T13:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=170933&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:12:33","slug":"tobiume-picking-ritual-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/tobiume-picking-ritual-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobiume Picking Ritual at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ritual revolves around the \u201cTobiume (flying plum tree),\u201d a tree believed to have flown overnight from Kyoto to honor Sugawara Michizane, the deity of Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. A priest initiates the ritual by shaking the branches of the Tobiume using a green bamboo stick. Following this, shrine maidens collect each fallen plum seed individually. The collected plums are then dedicated to the deity and subsequently crafted into \u201cTobiume Omamori,\u201d a unique good-luck charm said to be once-in-a-lifetime. Once the initial part of the ritual concludes, priests, priestesses, and shrine staff members join in to harvest plums from the remaining 6,000 plum trees within the shrine grounds.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fn_dazaifu-tobiume-ritual_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#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=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fn_dazaifu-tobiume-ritual_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fn_dazaifu-tobiume-ritual_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fn_dazaifu-tobiume-ritual_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fn_dazaifu-tobiume-ritual_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 5\/20 (Tue.)<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\/DYw7ksVRoUjdUPN26\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-7-1 Saifu, Dazaifu City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/archives\/1581\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/archives\/1581<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyushu Live \u2013 How to Make Umeshu and the Legend of the Flying Plum Tree! (May 27, 2022)<\/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\/FxzWjx769dw?si=Ll1_xJ1ZA0absogi&amp;start=40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ritual revolves around the \u201cTobiume (flying plum tree),\u201d a tree believed to have flown overnight from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":170934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-170933","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\/170933","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=170933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}