{"id":6818,"date":"2011-01-17T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2011-01-16T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T05:25:05","slug":"momijidera-%e7%b4%85%e8%91%89%e5%af%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/momijidera-%e7%b4%85%e8%91%89%e5%af%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Momijidera (\u7d05\u8449\u5bfa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/03161748trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/03161748trim-450x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"momijidera \u7d05\u8449\u5bfa \u91d1\u525b\u5bfa \u738b\u5b50 \u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u5317\u533a\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/03161748trim-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/03161748trim-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/03161748trim.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fall photo? Actually, no. I took this picture in May. As part of the bike ride, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/kishimojin-in-ikebukuro-%E6%B1%A0%E8%A2%8B%E3%81%AE%E9%AC%BC%E5%AD%90%E6%AF%8D%E7%A5%9E\/>mentioned previously<\/a>, in which I somewhat followed the street car line from Waseda to Oji (Ouji or Ooji) in Kita Ku, I parked my bike for a while in Oji (\u738b\u5b50) and followed a walk in a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/water-walks-in-the-suburbs-of-tokyo\/>guide book<\/a>. The book led me to a temple called Kongouji (\u91d1\u525b\u5bfa). The nickname for the temple is Momijidera or Japanese Maple Temple and you can see why.<\/p>\n<p>The trees were amazing. Some looked to be in their fall splendor even in May, but I think that is how they look all late-spring and summer long.<\/p>\n<p>An old man who lived in the neighborhood stopped me and we chatted for a while. He told me a lot about the temple and the neighborhood. I wish I had written it down then as I forget most of it now. I do remember feeling like it was a wonderful conversation at the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fall photo? Actually, no. I took this picture in May. As part of the bike ride, mentioned previously, in which I somewhat followed the street car line from Waseda to Oji (Ouji or Ooji) in Kita Ku, I parked my bike for a while in Oji (\u738b\u5b50) and followed a walk in a guide [&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":[101,55,147,283,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818"}],"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=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}