{"id":5361,"date":"2010-04-29T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2010-04-27T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:45:22","slug":"tis-cherry-blossom-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/tis-cherry-blossom-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"TIS Cherry Blossom Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17114622trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17114622trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo international school gym\" title=\"japanese curling\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17114622trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17114622trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17114622trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/tokyo-international-school\/>Tokyo International School<\/a> held their annual Cherry Blossom Fair. I&#8217;m not sure why they call it that as the cherry blossoms are gone by then. Maybe they usually have it a week earlier and didn&#8217;t want to change the name of the event this year.<\/p>\n<p>The top photo is of one of the many games. This one was called Japanese Curling. The kids were a little disappointed that there were no sweepers, but it was a popular game anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17115713trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17115713trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"yakisoba teriyaki japan\" title=\"japanese food booth at tis cherry blossom fair festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17115713trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17115713trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17115713trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The food booths were really good. Countries (and foods) represented included Japan (pictured above), USA, Egypt, Israel, France, Germany, New Zealand, Korea, and about five others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17134011trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17134011trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"minatoku tokyo skyscrappers japan taiko drumming\" title=\"tokyo international school tis\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17134011trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17134011trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17134011trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a taiko performance. <I>Koinobori<\/I> (\u9bc9\u5e5f or carp streamers) graced the outdoor activities. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17112036trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17112036trim-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"sakura cherry blossom fair 2010\" title=\"tokyo international school gym\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17112036trim-800x546.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17112036trim-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/17112036trim.jpg 1317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A clown\/comedian\/juggler\/entertainer who called himself &#8220;Super Gaijin&#8221; can be seen in the above photo sporting a blue hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago Tokyo International School held their annual Cherry Blossom Fair. I&#8217;m not sure why they call it that as the cherry blossoms are gone by then. Maybe they usually have it a week earlier and didn&#8217;t want to change the name of the event this year. The top photo is of one [&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":[102,176,174,197,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}