{"id":114,"date":"2009-08-11T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-06-26T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T06:34:03","slug":"tohoku-summer-festivals-in-sendai-yamagata-and-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/2009\/08\/tohoku-summer-festivals-in-sendai-yamagata-and-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"Tohoku summer festivals in Sendai, Yamagata, and Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally revisited Sendai during Aug. 6-8 to see the famous Tanabata Festival, the grand daddy of all Tanabata Matsuris in Japan. I was not disappointed. Sendai&#8217;s Tanabata is definitely a few notches above any other Tanabata in Japan. Most of the streamers are made of paper instead of plastic. And all those origami paper cranes. I shudder to think how many man-hours were spent to make them. Click on the image to see more photos.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/miyagi\/sendai\/tanabata\/st164-20090806_1461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Sendai, I took a day trip to neighboring Yamagata to see the Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri, an evening parade of dancers wearing a flower hat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=70\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/yamagata\/hanagasa\/yh074-20090807_2841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the way back to Tokyo, I stopped by Fukushima to see the Fukushima Waraji Matsuri Festival which is another evening dance parade with a twist. Sometimes you see dancers wear waraji straw sandals.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/fukushima\/fukushima-shi\/waraji\/fw059-20090808_3200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally revisited Sendai during Aug. 6-8 to see the famous Tanabata Festival, the grand daddy of all Tanabata Matsuris in Japan. I was not disappointed. Sendai&#8217;s Tanabata is definitely a few notches above any other Tanabata in Japan. Most&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}