{"id":79846,"date":"2013-10-24T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T03:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=43733"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:13:46","slug":"fukuoka-matsuri-gekkasai","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/fukuoka-matsuri-gekkasai\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Matsuri Gekkasai"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gekkasai Festival, Tenjin\u2019s autumn festival, will be held Oct. 26~27. The festival was launched last year to invigorate the Tenjin area, whose residential population is declining, and honors Kaguya-hime, the main character of the Heian Period fairy tale \u201cThe Story of Taketori\u201d. On Oct. 26, about 500 local residents will dress in period costumes and march in a parade from Maizuru Junior High School to Kego Shrine, the main venue for the festivities. A third-grade girl from Daimyo Elementary School will play the role of Kaguya-hime and will ride on a float with the four princes who have requested her hand in marriage. On Oct. 27, a portable Kaguya-hime shrine will be carried around 11 shopping centers in Tenjin and there will be a series of Kaguya-hime dances.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 10\/26 (Sat.) ~ 10\/27 (Sun.) 11:30 ~ 19:30
\n\u2022 Tenjin, Kego shrine, Maizuru Junior High School
\n\u2022 Free
\n\u2022 http:\/\/www.fukuoka-matsuri.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE: Photo from official site: http:\/\/www.fukuoka-matsuri.jp<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gekkasai Festival, Tenjin\u2019s autumn festival, will be held Oct. 26~27. The festival was launched last year to invigorate the Tenjin area, whose residential population is declining, and honors Kaguya-hime, the main character of the Heian Period fairy tale \u201cThe Story of Taketori\u201d. On Oct. 26, about 500 local residents will dress in period costumes and march in a parade from Maizuru Junior High School to Kego Shrine, the main venue for the festivities. A third-grade girl from Daimyo Elementary School will play the role of Kaguya-hime and will ride on a float with the four princes who have requested her hand in marriage. On Oct. 27, a portable Kaguya-hime shrine will be carried around 11 shopping centers in Tenjin and there will be a series of Kaguya-hime dances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-79846","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-chuo-ku","location-tenjin","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/79846","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}