{"id":4742,"date":"2010-03-03T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2010-02-21T04:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T11:24:11","slug":"suwa-jinja-%e8%ab%8f%e8%a8%aa%e7%a5%9e%e7%a4%be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/suwa-jinja-%e8%ab%8f%e8%a8%aa%e7%a5%9e%e7%a4%be\/","title":{"rendered":"Suwa Jinja (\u8acf\u8a2a\u795e\u793e)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21120847trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21120847trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"suwa jinja \u8acf\u8a2a\u795e\u793e takadanobaba shinokubo tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21120847trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21120847trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21120847trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have yet to get past part one in my <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/%E8%AB%8F%E8%A8%AA%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE-%E7%A5%AD%E3%82%8A-suwa-jinja-matsuri-festival\/>Suwa Jinja Matsuri<\/a> series. Someday I&#8217;ll return to those pics. Fast forward  six months to a neat-sky Sunday in February. I was out for a walk with my camera and decided to visit this Shinto shrine again to see if there were any plum blossoms on the grounds. There weren&#8217;t, but the sky made for some good photos anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121811trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121811trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\u8acf\u8a2a\u795e\u793e japanese shinto shrine\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121811trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121811trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121811trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Normally you approach a shrine from the front, passing under the <I>torii<\/I>. I came from a park in the back (which is the order of today&#8217;s pictures). The kids&#8217; park has been overrun with homeless men. There wasn&#8217;t a kid in the place, but there were about a half dozen homeless men hanging out or sleeping in their makeshift, blue-tarp, tent homes.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, there were boy scouts putting away their own tents on the shrine grounds when I arrived. A chain-link fence was the only thing between the homeless campers and the boy scout campers who were about to head home. I thought it was a strange scene. I wonder if the boy scouts or the homeless dudes felt the same way. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121939trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121939trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"suwa jinja shinjuku ku torii\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121939trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121939trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/21121939trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last I exited, through the normal entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to get past part one in my Suwa Jinja Matsuri series. Someday I&#8217;ll return to those pics. Fast forward six months to a neat-sky Sunday in February. I was out for a walk with my camera and decided to visit this Shinto shrine again to see if there were any plum blossoms [&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":[130,88,87,174,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742"}],"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=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}