{"id":6144,"date":"2010-07-23T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T00:36:48","slug":"awa-odori-festival-at-kagurazaka-%e7%a5%9e%e6%a5%bd%e5%9d%82%e3%81%ae%e9%98%bf%e6%b3%a2%e8%b8%8a%e3%82%8a%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/awa-odori-festival-at-kagurazaka-%e7%a5%9e%e6%a5%bd%e5%9d%82%e3%81%ae%e9%98%bf%e6%b3%a2%e8%b8%8a%e3%82%8a%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Awa Odori Festival at Kagurazaka (\u795e\u697d\u5742\u306e\u963f\u6ce2\u8e0a\u308a\u796d\u308a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090941trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090941trim-497x800.jpg\" alt=\"kagurazaka matsuri\" title=\"awa odori female japanese dancer\" width=\"497\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090941trim-497x800.jpg 497w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090941trim-155x250.jpg 155w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P1090941trim.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night (and tonight if you are in Tokyo) was the annual Awa Odori <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/festivals\/>Matsuri<\/a> at nearby Kagurazaka. The day was very hot so I remained indoors (with AC) until I walked the 30 minutes or so to Kagurazaka in order to arrive by the start at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Summer nights have that magically feel in the air already. Add thousands of Japanese musicians and dancers to the smiling members of the audience and the evening becomes that much more special.<\/p>\n<p>I have never witnessed the Awa Odori before, and I hope it won&#8217;t be my last such experience.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video I took:<br \/>\n<object width=\"800\" height=\"625\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lusRiqPONHE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lusRiqPONHE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"625\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night (and tonight if you are in Tokyo) was the annual Awa Odori Matsuri at nearby Kagurazaka. The day was very hot so I remained indoors (with AC) until I walked the 30 minutes or so to Kagurazaka in order to arrive by the start at 7 p.m. Summer nights have that magically feel [&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":[296,215,176,30,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144"}],"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=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}