{"id":8593,"date":"2011-12-01T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:42:32","slug":"monkey-god-sarugami-at-hie-jinja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/monkey-god-sarugami-at-hie-jinja\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey God (Sarugami at Hie Jinja)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8594\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010358SarugamiHieJinjaTokyo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8594\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010358SarugamiHieJinjaTokyo-397x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u733f\u795e\u50cf\u3000\u65e5\u679d\u795e\u793e\u3000\" title=\"Sarugami Hie Jinja Tokyo monkey god statue\" width=\"397\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010358SarugamiHieJinjaTokyo-397x800.jpg 397w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1010358SarugamiHieJinjaTokyo-124x250.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u65e5\u679d\u795e\u793e\u306e\u733f\u795e\u50cf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I first saw this statue I thought it was a legendary kappa. However, on closer inspection, I found it to be a monkey wearing a Shinto priest&#8217;s hat. A little research turned up the fact that sarugami, also known as masaru, is the patron god of the Hie shrines all over Japan. I took today&#8217;s photo at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/sanno-matsuri-at-hie-jinja-%E6%97%A5%E6%9E%9D%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE%E3%81%AE%E5%B1%B1%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A4%E3%82%8A\/>the one in Tokyo<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw this statue I thought it was a legendary kappa. However, on closer inspection, I found it to be a monkey wearing a Shinto priest&#8217;s hat. A little research turned up the fact that sarugami, also known as masaru, is the patron god of the Hie shrines all over Japan. I took [&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":[87,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593"}],"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=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}