{"id":957,"date":"2010-12-21T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=957"},"modified":"2010-12-21T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:19:50","slug":"japanese-festivals-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Festivals in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misogi Matsuri (<strong>\u798a\u796d\u308a<\/strong>) is a festival where men wear a white loincloth or underwear and purify themselves in a river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zdIf_O8pSAE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zdIf_O8pSAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oshiroi Matsuri (<strong>\u304a\u3057\u308d\u3044\u796d\u308a<\/strong>) is a festival where white paste is smeared over the faces of the townspeople. The white paste is made of rice flour and water and is believed to bring a good harvest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u304a\u3057\u308d\u3044\u796d\u308a\u3000Face powder Festival\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnbFUW2UoHU?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>Iwatari Shinji (<strong>\u706b\u6e21\u308a\u3057\u3093\u3058<\/strong>) is an occasion where priests walk through hot embers with their bare feet. This is a purification rite testing their strength and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u767d\u5cef\u5bfa\u3000\u706b\u6e21\u308a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q05towQ6Jq0?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>Misogi Matsuri (\u798a\u796d\u308a) is a festival where men wear a white loincloth or underwear and purify themselves in a river. The Oshiroi Matsuri (\u304a\u3057\u308d\u3044\u796d\u308a) is a festival where white paste is smeared over the faces of the townspeople. The white paste is made of rice flour and water and is believed to bring a good&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-festivals-in-december\/\">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":[10439],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-japanese-festivals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}