{"id":1519,"date":"2018-09-19T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:24:22","slug":"vol16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/en\/event\/vol16\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.16:Mid-autumn moon\uff08Harvest moon\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westerners seem to have a negative image against the full moon as there is a legend that the full moon makes people&#8217;s minds go wrong.<br \/>\nIn Japan there is a custom to admire the moon.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt is said that there was from an old Jomon period (between 131 century B.C. and BC 4th century B.C.), why is the moon so special?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt was thought that, around the time there was no electricity once, the area was dark after sunset. The moonlight of the night, especially the brightness of the full moon, would have been as gorgeous as we cannot imagine in modern times.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nEspecially in the \u201cChushu-no-meigetsu\u201d we have a habit of looking at the moon and celebrate it to give thanks to god for the rice harvest.<br \/>\nIn 2018, It is September 24.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cChushu-no-meigetsu\u201d means \u201cMid-Autumn moon\u201d. In English, it is called \u201cHarvest moon\u201d.<br \/>\n&#8220;Meigetsu&#8221; means &#8220;full moon&#8221; with a full moon in the middle of autumn, hammer, but &#8220;Mid-autumn moon&#8221; is not necessarily the full moon day. For this year, the full moon is September 25 of the next day.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Moon Festivals are scheduled to take place in various places.<br \/>\nThe event of Daikaku-ji is famous, but unfortunately, due to the influence of the other day&#8217;s typhoon, it is canceled this year.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Moon Festivals will be held in the following places.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00b7 Shinsen\uff1aSeptember 22 (Sat) 18: 00\uff5e<br \/>\n\u00b7 Yasaka Shrine\uff1aSeptember 24 (Monday) 19: 00\uff5e<br \/>\n\u00b7 Kamigamo Shrine\uff1aSeptember 24 (Monday) 18: 00\uff5e<br \/>\n\u00b7 Shimogamo Shrine\uff1aSeptember 24 (Monday) 17: 30\uff5e<br \/>\n\u00b7 Matsuo Taisha\uff1aSeptember 24 (Monday) 17: 00\uff5e<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPlease enjoy special autumn when you are traveling in Kyoto.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can see the local information of Kyoto regularly with not only the application but also KoI HP.<br \/>\n\u2605Android application is <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=kyoto.kyonaka_gozan.koiapp&#038;hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westerners seem to have a negative image against the full moon as there is a legend that the full moon makes people&#8217;s minds go wrong. In Japan there is a custom to admire the moon. &nbsp; It is said that there was from an old Jomon period (between 131 century B.C. and BC 4th century [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1517"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}