{"id":8443,"date":"2011-10-28T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T00:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2011-10-27T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T00:42:31","slug":"sensoji-%e6%b5%85%e8%8d%89%e5%af%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/sensoji-%e6%b5%85%e8%8d%89%e5%af%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensoji (\u6d45\u8349\u5bfa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8444\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/06122325AsakusaSensoji.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8444\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/06122325AsakusaSensoji-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"famous tokyo buddhist temple\" title=\"Asakusa Sensoji\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/06122325AsakusaSensoji-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/06122325AsakusaSensoji-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/06122325AsakusaSensoji.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sensoji&#039;s five-story pagoda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One strange thing about the Japanese language is that characters (kanji) usually have multiple readings. Take the kanji for Senso-Ji for example. This famous temple is located in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/asakusa\/>Asakusa (\u6d45\u8349)<\/a> so when you see the kanji \u6d45\u8349\u5bfa you think this place must be called Asakusa Tera or Asakusa Dera (tera, \u5bfa, means temple). Actually, it is read Sensoji so not a single character retains its &#8220;normal&#8221; reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One strange thing about the Japanese language is that characters (kanji) usually have multiple readings. Take the kanji for Senso-Ji for example. This famous temple is located in Asakusa (\u6d45\u8349) so when you see the kanji \u6d45\u8349\u5bfa you think this place must be called Asakusa Tera or Asakusa Dera (tera, \u5bfa, means temple). Actually, it [&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":[231,238,147,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443"}],"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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}