{"id":10799,"date":"2013-02-18T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2013-02-18T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:14:29","slug":"asakusas-kaminarimon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/asakusas-kaminarimon\/","title":{"rendered":"Asakusa&#8217;s kaminarimon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10800\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/06115905-asakusa-nio-kaminarimon-pigeon-tokyo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10800\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/06115905-asakusa-nio-kaminarimon-pigeon-tokyo-578x800.jpg\" alt=\"Asakusa&#039;s Sensoji - Tokyo, Japan - statue Tenryu in the Kaminarimon and a pigeon\" width=\"578\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/06115905-asakusa-nio-kaminarimon-pigeon-tokyo-578x800.jpg 578w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/06115905-asakusa-nio-kaminarimon-pigeon-tokyo-180x250.jpg 180w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/06115905-asakusa-nio-kaminarimon-pigeon-tokyo.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asakusa&#8217;s Sensoji &#8211; Tokyo, Japan &#8211; statue Tenryu in the Kaminarimon and a pigeon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typically, Buddhist temples in Japan have a couple of scary-looking statues at the entrance such as the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/nio\/>Nio<\/a>. In the famous gate, kaminarimon (\u96f7\u9580), in Asakusa there are four statues instead of the usual two. This one of Tenryu is anything but scary, or at least that&#8217;s what the pigeons think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, Buddhist temples in Japan have a couple of scary-looking statues at the entrance such as the Nio. In the famous gate, kaminarimon (\u96f7\u9580), in Asakusa there are four statues instead of the usual two. This one of Tenryu is anything but scary, or at least that&#8217;s what the pigeons think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[231,101,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}