{"id":8987,"date":"2012-02-03T02:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:08:47","slug":"bean-throwing-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/bean-throwing-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean-throwing festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03151909setsubun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03151909setsubun-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"setsubun nikko japan bean throwing festival \u7bc0\u5206\" title=\"setsubun nikko japan bean throwing festival \u7bc0\u5206\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03151909setsubun-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03151909setsubun-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03151909setsubun.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Setsubun (\u7bc0\u5206) in Japan. Even if you aren&#8217;t in Japan, if you happen to run into a Japanese person, today is a good day to say &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/an-oni-%E9%AC%BC-in-sweden\/>oni<\/a> wa soto, fuku wa uchi&#8221; (out with the devils, in with the luck) to them.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is from the Setsubun bean-throwing festivities at Rinnoji in Nikko. They threw treats and prizes instead of beans. We were handed handfuls of beans as we headed out after though.<\/p>\n<p>There were several famous actors who tossed the prizes. In this photo, for instance, you can see Nakayama Jin (\u4e2d\u5c71 \u4ec1) and Otonashi Mikiko (\u97f3\u7121 \u7f8e\u7d00\u5b50), whose names are displayed beneath them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Setsubun (\u7bc0\u5206) in Japan. Even if you aren&#8217;t in Japan, if you happen to run into a Japanese person, today is a good day to say &#8220;oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi&#8221; (out with the devils, in with the luck) to them. Today&#8217;s photo is from the Setsubun bean-throwing festivities at Rinnoji in [&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":[215,203,258,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987"}],"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=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8990,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}