{"id":133232,"date":"2020-07-01T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=133232&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:27:13","slug":"free-bamboo-fans-with-amabie-design-at-kawabata-shopping-arcade","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/free-bamboo-fans-with-amabie-design-at-kawabata-shopping-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Bamboo Fans With Amabie Design at Kawabata Shopping Arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawabata Shotengai, a covered shopping arcade in central Fukuoka, will distribute \u2018amabie\u2019 designed hand-held fans to shoppers. The association created five-thousand pieces of the bamboo-made fans, hoping to ward off the new coronavirus and bring cheers to the district as it misses the cancelled festival of Hakata Gion Yamakasa. A Hakata-doll craftsman, Isamu Tanaka, created the original painting of the <em>yokai<\/em> ghost \u2018amabie\u2019 and a buddhist monk related to the origin of Hakata Gion Yamakasa. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/fukuoka\/news\/20200618-OYTNT50058\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yomiuri<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=2560%2C1920&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/fan-kawabata-shopping-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/tag\/corona\/\">#fukuokacorona<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/tag\/corona\/\">#fukuokacovid19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. 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The association created five-thousand pieces of the bamboo-made fans, hoping to ward off the new coronavirus and bring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":133315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-133232","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/133232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}