{"id":172341,"date":"2025-07-23T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=172341&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:52:18","slug":"dainyu-tug-of-war-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/dainyu-tug-of-war-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Dainyu Tug-of-War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This traditional event has been held for over 160 years in the Dainyu district of Itoshima. On August 15th, during Obon, vines are collected from the mountains to create a thick, long rope. In front of Dainyu Hakusan Shrine, the local guardian deity, a tug-of-war is held between two teams: the young men\u2019s group and the combined group of middle-aged men and children. After three rounds, the rope is cut in two, and from the winning team\u2019s (the \u201cHotoke\u201d team) rope, a ring is made for a children\u2019s sumo tournament.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172312\" style=\"width: 943px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=933%2C1400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dainyu Tug-of-War\" width=\"933\" height=\"1400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-002.jpg?w=933&amp;ssl=1 933w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\uff08\u4e00\u793e\uff09\u7cf8\u5cf6\u5e02\u89b3\u5149\u5354\u4f1a<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 8\/15 (Fri.) *slight rain or shine<br \/>\n\u2022 15:00~17:30<br \/>\n\u2022 Free viewing<br \/>\n\u2022 Dainyu Hakusan Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uYrd9KrmMdWhDtg2A\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2564 Nijo-Fukui, Itoshima City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/kanko-itoshima.jp\/spot\/dainyukazura\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/kanko-itoshima.jp\/spot\/dainyukazura\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172311\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dainyu Tug-of-War\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fn_dainyu-tag-war_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-172311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\uff08\u4e00\u793e\uff09\u7cf8\u5cf6\u5e02\u89b3\u5149\u5354\u4f1a<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This traditional event has been held for over 160 years in the Dainyu district of Itoshima. On August 15th, during Obon, vines are collected from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":172342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-172341","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-itoshima","event-type-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/172341","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=172341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}