{"id":140061,"date":"2021-04-14T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140061&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:02:10","slug":"more-traditional-festivals-cancelled-for-second-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/more-traditional-festivals-cancelled-for-second-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"More Traditional Festivals Cancelled for Second Consecutive Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More traditional festivals around Kyushu are announcing cancellations due to the pandemic. The three-day event of Tobata Gion Oyamagasa (Kitakyushu City\/ UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage) announced the cancelation of its highlight, \u201cPyramids of Light,\u201d for 2021. The 300-year-old Hita Gion Festival (Hita City, Oita\/ UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage) decided not to hold <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yamaboko junko<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in July. Nagasaki Kunchi (Nagasaki City, Nagasaki\/ Japan\u2019s Important Intangible Folk Cultural Asset) announced cancellations of the dedication of dance and the procession scheduled in October 2021. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rkb.jp\/news\/001954.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.hita.oita.jp\/event\/10768.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hita City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/national\/20210412-OYT1T50176\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-140062\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Nagasaki_Kunchi_Ja-odori_of_Kagomachi.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marine-Blue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The three-day event of Tobata Gion Oyamagasa (Kitakyushu City\/ UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage) announced the cancelation of its highlight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140061","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140061","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}