{"id":870,"date":"2010-11-10T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=870"},"modified":"2010-11-12T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T06:54:52","slug":"japanese-festivals-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Festivals in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November is the time for some interesting Japanese festivals. Take a look at some of these festivals :<\/p>\n<p>The Onomichi Betcha Festival (<strong>\u5c3e\u9053<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>\u30d9\u30c3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u796d<\/strong><strong>\u308a<\/strong>) is a festival where men dress as demons and pretend to thrash children as they walk by. It\u2019s an old custom that traces back to a time when people believed that you could \u201cbeat\u201d an illness out of a child.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u5c3e\u9053\u30d9\u30c3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u796d\u308a  Onomichi Betcha Festival 2009-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5k8KoLpFeuk?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>Sukagawa Taimatsu (<strong>\u9808\u8cc0<\/strong><strong>\u5ddd<\/strong><strong>\u677e<\/strong><strong>\u660e<\/strong>) is a large fire festival where tall straw storage stalks are burned. The straw storage stalks are normally used to contain rice, but the rice is taken out and the straw is burned. The straw bins can be at least ten feet high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FX56zMjzziQ&#038;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FX56zMjzziQ&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shichi Go San Festival (<strong>\u4e03\u4e94<\/strong><strong>\u4e09<\/strong>) is an nationwide festival in Japan.\u00a0To read more about it go here : <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/shichi-go-san\">https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/shichi-go-san<\/a>-\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09-festival\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video showing how Japanese kids get dressed up for the festival :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shichigosan  (\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yt1Vqxl6ec?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>November is the time for some interesting Japanese festivals. Take a look at some of these festivals : The Onomichi Betcha Festival (\u5c3e\u9053 \u30d9\u30c3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u796d\u308a) is a festival where men dress as demons and pretend to thrash children as they walk by. It\u2019s an old custom that traces back to a time when people believed that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-november\/\">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":[1],"tags":[10439],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japanese-festivals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}