{"id":1823,"date":"2009-03-01T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:26:24","slug":"japanese-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/japanese-lanterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_1601trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1824\" title=\"japanese lanterns\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_1601trim-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_1601trim-800x580.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_1601trim-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_1601trim.jpg 1447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If today&#8217;s picture looks a little familiar it is because a portion of it sometimes appears as the banner across the top of this blog.<\/p>\n<p>To the foreign eye this photograph probably looks like a cool piece of Japan&#8211;lantern after lantern loaded with strange and unique Japanese characters. I wonder what it looks like to a Japanese person. What is written on these lanterns you ask? Business names. That&#8217;s right; this is just a wall of advertising. I find it to be more beautiful than American billboards, but maybe the Japanese look at it as an eyesore.<\/p>\n<p>The location of these lanterns is near the entrance of a shopping street in Kyoto. Immediately behind the lanterns is a shrine. I&#8217;m guessing it is for the prosperity of the businesses that sponsor it. You can see some <em><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/shimenawa\/\">shimenawa<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/fushimi-inari-taisha-\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u5927\u793e-part-iii\/\">gohei<\/a><\/em> if you look closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If today&#8217;s picture looks a little familiar it is because a portion of it sometimes appears as the banner across the top of this blog. To the foreign eye this photograph probably looks like a cool piece of Japan&#8211;lantern after lantern loaded with strange and unique Japanese characters. I wonder what it looks like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[88,86,224,99,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}