{"id":5435,"date":"2010-05-05T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2010-05-04T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T00:05:26","slug":"%e7%94%b2%e5%b7%9e%e8%bb%8d%e5%9b%a3%e5%87%ba%e9%99%a3-off-to-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/%e7%94%b2%e5%b7%9e%e8%bb%8d%e5%9b%a3%e5%87%ba%e9%99%a3-off-to-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7532\u5dde\u8ecd\u56e3\u51fa\u9663 Off to battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10180011trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10180011trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\u4fe1\u7384\u516c\u796d\u308a\" title=\"horseback takeda shingen general kofu japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10180011trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10180011trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10180011trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In English, one would probably call this a parade. In Japanese \u8ecd\u56e3\u51fa\u9663 implies the soldiers are heading to the front lines of battle, and such is the nature of the Takeda Shingen Parade. The loudspeaker calls out which regiment is summoned to the front lines as dramatic music plays through the streets.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember the guy on horseback in the top photo from <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/more-from-the-former-kofu-castle-site-%E7%94%B2%E5%BA%9C%E5%9F%8E%E8%B7%A1\/>this earlier picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10174814trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10174814trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"samurai warriors\" title=\"takeda shingen matsuri parade\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10174814trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10174814trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10174814trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the thousands of people in modern dress watching, and the retail outlets surrounding the scene, your imagination could take you back a few hundred years to the actual events. The Shingen Ko Matsuri (Takeda Shingen Festival or \u4fe1\u7384\u516c\u796d\u308a) is your next best thing to a time machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English, one would probably call this a parade. In Japanese \u8ecd\u56e3\u51fa\u9663 implies the soldiers are heading to the front lines of battle, and such is the nature of the Takeda Shingen Parade. The loudspeaker calls out which regiment is summoned to the front lines as dramatic music plays through the streets. You may remember [&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":[271,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435"}],"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=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}