{"id":86571,"date":"2016-04-27T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=86571&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:03:54","slug":"kawawatari-jinkosai-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kawawatari-jinkosai-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawawatari Jinkosai Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 450-year-old river-crossing festival is one of Fukuoka\u2019s five major festivals. Around 11 large <em>mikoshi<\/em> (portable shrines) are carried from Fuuji Shrine across the Hikosan River on the 21st (the largest requires 60 men!). They are illuminated overnight, and then taken back across the river on the 22nd.<\/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\/04\/05-Fuuji-Jinkosai-e1461548287124.jpg?resize=640%2C428\" alt=\"05 - Fuuji Jinkosai\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 5\/21 (Sat.), 5\/22 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 River-crossing: 15:30~<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Fuuji Hachimangu Shrine area<br \/>\n\u2022 2-30 Uomachi, Tagawa, Fukuoka<br \/>\n\u2022 0947-42-1135<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/fuuji.net\/jinkosai\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fuuji.net\/jinkosai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn-209-web\" target=\"_blank\">fn209<\/a>, May 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 450-year-old river-crossing festival is one of Fukuoka\u2019s five major festivals. Around 11 large mikoshi (portable shrines) are carried from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":86349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-86571","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/86571","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=86571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}