{"id":14694,"date":"2015-07-14T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T22:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=14694"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:16:18","slug":"footprint-of-the-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/footprint-of-the-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Footprint of the Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/136_9077-RAW-buddha-footprint-miyajima.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/136_9077-RAW-buddha-footprint-miyajima.jpg\" alt=\"buddha footprint miyajima\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u4ecf\u8db3\u8de1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bet you didn&#8217;t know the Buddha had a swastika on each toe. Well he did, at least before WWII, and still in parts of Japan where the swastika doesn&#8217;t have the negative image it has earned nearly everywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Believers are encouraged to take their shoes off, stand on the Buddha&#8217;s footprints, say a few words, and get lucky. This is found at Miyajima&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/daishoin-%E5%A4%A7%E8%81%96%E9%99%A2\/>Daishoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bet you didn&#8217;t know the Buddha had a swastika on each toe. Well he did, at least before WWII, and still in parts of Japan where the swastika doesn&#8217;t have the negative image it has earned nearly everywhere else in the world. Believers are encouraged to take their shoes off, stand on the Buddha&#8217;s footprints, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,503,456,447,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694"}],"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=14694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33314,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14694\/revisions\/33314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}