{"id":1128,"date":"2011-03-10T01:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2011-03-10T01:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:13:27","slug":"japanese-festivals-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Festivals in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some cool Japanese festivals in March. Let\u2019s take a look at what they are!<\/p>\n<p>The Todaiji Shunie (<strong>\u6771\u5927\u5bfa<\/strong><strong>\u4fee\u4e8c<\/strong><strong>\u4f1a<\/strong>,) is a festival that features several priests who carry large fire torches across a balcony. The locals try to catch some of the sparks from the torches because they believe that the sparks will keep bad luck away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u5948\u826f\u5e02\u306e\u6771\u5927\u5bfa\u4e8c\u6708\u5802\u3000\u304a\u6c34\u53d6\u308a\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9MwqqAo3ys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hina Nagashi Matsuri (<strong>\u3072\u306a\u6d41<\/strong><strong>\u3057\u796d\u308a<\/strong>) is a floating dolls festival. Every year boat loads of dolls are floated down a river. It\u2019s believed that all the negative energy and afflictions that the dolls carry in place of their owner will float away into the river.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6de1\u5d8b\u795e\u793e\u30fb\u3072\u306a\u6d41\u3057\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohdbvTe6reQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Honensai Festival (<strong>\u8c4a\u5e74\u796d<\/strong><strong>\u796d\u308a<\/strong>) is a fertility festival that welcomes the blossoming of spring and the fertility of the land. A giant wooden phallus is carried and paraded through the streets. People believe that touching the wooden phallus will bring good luck, and try to tap the icon to get good luck.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hounen Matsuri (Penis Festival)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jnbc3QM4pJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some cool Japanese festivals in March. Let\u2019s take a look at what they are! The Todaiji Shunie (\u6771\u5927\u5bfa\u4fee\u4e8c\u4f1a,) is a festival that features several priests who carry large fire torches across a balcony. The locals try to catch some of the sparks from the torches because they believe that the sparks will keep&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-march\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}