{"id":6137,"date":"2010-08-21T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2010-07-23T01:55:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:55:22","slug":"shirakawagos-myozenji-%e6%98%8e%e5%96%84%e5%af%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/shirakawagos-myozenji-%e6%98%8e%e5%96%84%e5%af%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirakawago&#8217;s Myozenji (\u660e\u5584\u5bfa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090464trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090464trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"myozenji buddhist temple\" title=\"shirakawago gifu prefecture japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090464trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090464trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090464trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our first day in Shirakawago, we had only an hour or two before the rain began. The downpour was incredible and only added to the town&#8217;s character (assuming it let up for the following day, right?). There is nothing like thunder and lightning when you are lodging in a <I>gassho zukuri<\/I> (\u5408\u638c\u9020\u308a).<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast was scheduled for 7:30 so I headed out of the thatched roof home (Hisamatsu \u4e45\u677e\u6c11\u5bbf) where we were staying at 6 a.m., hoping for a morning walk of more than an hour that didn&#8217;t include rain or tourists. The above photo is what Myozenji looked like across the road as I began my walk. I didn&#8217;t see any tourists. Everything was extremely peaceful. There were a couple of old Japanese guys tending their <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/rice-paddy\/>rice fields<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t see anyone else. The mountains were shrouded in mist that slowly began to burn away with the clouds. <\/p>\n<p>It was a morning I will never forget. I returned just before breakfast and took the pic below of the same basic scene. This time it was mostly blue skies, with just a bit of mist remaining to keep the atmosphere extra special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090576trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090576trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\u7530\u5703 rice paddy\" title=\"\u767d\u5ddd\u90f7\u3000\u660e\u5584\u5bfa\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090576trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090576trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090576trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our first day in Shirakawago, we had only an hour or two before the rain began. The downpour was incredible and only added to the town&#8217;s character (assuming it let up for the following day, right?). There is nothing like thunder and lightning when you are lodging in a gassho zukuri (\u5408\u638c\u9020\u308a). Breakfast was [&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":[295,293,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137"}],"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=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}