{"id":1499,"date":"2018-10-03T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:14:12","slug":"vol21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/en\/event\/vol21\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.21\uff1aAwata Festival in Kyoto, which is said to be the roots of the Nebuta festival in Aomori Prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Kurama Fire Festival is held on October 22 on the same day as the Era Festival, but the Kurama Fire Festival in this year has been canceled unfortunately .<br \/>\nIt is because restoration of fallen trees, houses, transportation facilities and others damaged by Typhoon No. 21 is not enough.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Awata Festival to be held this weekend will be held as follows.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAwata Festival is held at Awata Shrine, a small shrine located in northern Higashiyama area.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSaturday, October 6<br \/>\n10 pm: Festival (Come on Festival)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOctober 7 (Sun)<br \/>\nAround 6 PM: Reiken Ceremony<br \/>\nLarge 11 lanterns made up of traditional Japanese paper painted and shaped to look like mythological creatures and deities, are assembled for a parade through the Higashiyama area.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOctober 8 (Monday, congratulation)<br \/>\nAround 0:30 pm: Shinki festival cruise<br \/>\nAround 6 pm: Festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n8th and 15th (Monday)<br \/>\n11 am: Taisai, or &#8220;grand \/ main festival&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe beginning of the Awata Festival is 1001 years and has a history of more than 1,000 years.<br \/>\nIt is said that when the Gion Festival was not able to be held  in the Muromachi period, the Awata Festival was said as a substitute festival.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLarge lanterns of Awata Festival are also said to be the roots of the Nebuta festival in Aomori Prefecture.<br \/>\nIf you are going to Kyoto sightseeing this weekend, please have a look.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can see the local information of Kyoto regularly with the app.<br \/>\nAndroid app\u300cKoI Service\u300dis <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=kyoto.kyonaka_gozan.koiapp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\niPhone app\u300cKoI Service\u300dis <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/id1433855051?mt=8&#038;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, the Kurama Fire Festival is held on October 22 on the same day as the Era Festival, but the Kurama Fire Festival in this year has been canceled unfortunately . It is because restoration of fallen trees, houses, transportation facilities and others damaged by Typhoon No. 21 is not enough. &nbsp; &nbsp; The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1497"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}