{"id":80310,"date":"2012-10-26T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T08:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=29553"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:19:24","slug":"kaguyahime-parade","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kaguyahime-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaguyahime Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fukuoka\u2019s newest autumn festival \u201cFukuoka Matsuri Gekkasai\u201d debuts tomorrow 10\/27 (Sat.) in the Tenjin area. The parade is based on the oldest Japanese children\u2019s fairytale \u201cStory of Taketori\u201d which was written at the beginning of Heian period. The main character of the story is Taketori’s beautiful stepdaughter ‘Kaguya-hime’, whom the parade honors. For the main parade, one of three mikoshi (divine palanquin\/portable shrine) will carry the actress playing the moon princess \u201cKaguyahime\u201d along with a procession of around 300 female students from Maizuru Primary School and locals wearing traditional Heian period costumes. At ten spots on the course, including Iwataya, the Kaguyahime will come down from the mikoshi and dance. It\u2019s the first time for this parade to happen in Tenjin area. As part of the festival there is also a Kaguyahime dance display at Maizuru Park from 12:00~13:00, and local music performances on a temporary stage at Kego Shrine from 10:00~20:00. The festival\u2019s finale features special guests- pop duo \u201cISIS\u201d, who will perform at Kego Shrine from 19:15~.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 10\/27 (Sat.) 12:00~
\n\u2022 Kego shrine~Maizuru Park, Nishi Hiroba
\n\u2022 Free<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong>
\n\u2022 12:00~13:00 at Maizuru Park: Kaguyahime Dance
\n\u2022 16:00~19:00 around Tenjin: Kaguyahime Parade
\n\u2022 10:00 ~ 20:00 Kego shrine temporary stage live performance of local band. <\/p>\n

Official website: http:\/\/fukuoka-matsuri.jp\/gekkasai.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fukuoka\u2019s newest autumn festival \u201cFukuoka Matsuri Gekkasai\u201d debuts tomorrow 10\/27 (Sat.) in the Tenjin area. The parade is based on the oldest Japanese children\u2019s fairytale \u201cStory of Taketori\u201d which was written at the beginning of Heian period. The main character of the story is Taketori’s beautiful stepdaughter ‘Kaguya-hime’, whom the parade honors. For the main parade, one of three mikoshi (divine palanquin\/portable shrine) will carry the actress playing the moon princess \u201cKaguyahime\u201d along with a procession of around 300 female students from Maizuru Primary School and locals wearing traditional Heian period costumes. At ten spots on the course, including Iwataya, the Kaguyahime will come down from the mikoshi and dance. It\u2019s the first time for this parade to happen in Tenjin area. As part of the festival there is also a Kaguyahime dance display at Maizuru Park from 12:00~13:00, and local music performances on a temporary stage at Kego Shrine from 10:00~20:00. The festival\u2019s finale features special guests- pop duo \u201cISIS\u201d, who will perform at Kego Shrine from 19:15~.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":29554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80310","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-tenjin","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/80310","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}