{"id":72661,"date":"2016-02-26T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=70776"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:25:04","slug":"dazaifu-shrine-kyokusui-no-en-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/dazaifu-shrine-kyokusui-no-en-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dazaifu Shrine Kyokusui-no-en Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Heian period, this elegant annual festival sees Waka poets in traditional <em>kimono<\/em> sit along a stream amongst 6,000 plum blossoms composing poems. But there\u2019s a catch &#8211; a cup of <em>sake<\/em> is set afloat upstream, and when the cup reaches them, they must finish the poem and drink! Secure your seat early!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/02-dazaifu-kyokusui-no-en-e1456474248725.jpg?resize=640%2C428\" alt=\"02 - dazaifu kyokusui-no-en\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70778\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 3\/6 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 12:00~15:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 4-7-1 Saifu, Dazaifu, Fukuoka<br \/>\n\u2022 092-922-8225<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/sanpai\/saiten\/special\/kyokusui\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dazaifutenmangu.or.jp\/sanpai\/saiten\/special\/kyokusui<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn-207-web\" target=\"_blank\">fn207<\/a>, Mar. 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Heian period, this elegant annual festival sees Waka poets in traditional kimono sit along a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":70778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-72661","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\/72661","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\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}