{"id":94889,"date":"2017-01-25T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T08:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=94889&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:40:09","slug":"valentine-choko-pottery-exhibition-acros-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/valentine-choko-pottery-exhibition-acros-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine &#8216;Choko&#8217; Pottery Exhibition at Acros Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese word for \u201csake cup\u201d, <em>ochoko<\/em>, sounds like the Japanese word for \u201cchocolate\u201d, <em>choco<\/em>, so this exhibition plays on the phrase \u201cValentine choco\u201d \u2013 instead of giving your Valentine the typical box of chocolate, give them a heart-shaped sake cup (particularly if you love a sake-lover!). A heart-shaped ochoko at this exhibition will cost somewhere between \u00a51,080 and \u00a53,000. If you\u2019re lucky, you may see one of the expert craftsmen working with the potter\u2019s wheel. This year is the 10th anniversary of this exhibition, 1,000 choko will be exhibited in total (500 at Acros and 500 at Agano-yaki pottery museum, Fukuchi-machi, Fukuoka). Get a free chocolate with each purchase.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aganochoko.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aganochoko.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aganochoko.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2\/10 (Thu.) ~ 2\/13 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10:00~18:00 (1\/9: ~16:00)<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entrance<br \/>\n\u2022 2F Takumi Gallery, Fukuoka Acros<br \/>\n\u2022 1-1-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku<br \/>\n\u2022 092-725-9100<br \/>\n\u2022 http:\/\/www.acros.or.jp\/r_event\/sponsor_detail.php?event_id=3361<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese word for \u201csake cup\u201d, <em>ochoko<\/em>, sounds like the Japanese word for \u201cchocolate\u201d, <em>choco<\/em>, so this exhibition plays on the phrase \u201cValentine choco\u201d \u2013 instead of giving your Valentine the typical box of chocolate, give them a heart-shaped sake cup (particularly if you love a sake-lover!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-94889","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-tenjin","event-type-shopping","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/94889","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=94889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}