{"id":295,"date":"2008-10-27T02:20:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2016-08-14T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:55:10","slug":"otsu-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/otsu-matsuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Otsu Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Held on Oct. 11-12, 2008, this is another major float festival in Shiga where they display and pull ornate floats along the city streets. I went to see both the festival eve called Yoimiya when they display the floats on the streets at night. The floats are lit up with lanterns and musicians also play.<\/p>\n<p>On the next day, they had the procession through central Otsu.<\/p>\n<p>Unique features of the festival:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The floats have three wheels (like a tricycle) instead of four wheels.<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical karakuri dolls on the floats perform.<\/li>\n<li>They throw chimaki good luck charms from the floats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out my photos and videos:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mHSO_IWkdTE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCQkyxHJVUI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video link Part 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mHSO_IWkdTE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/mHSO_IWkdTE<br \/>\n<\/a>Video link Part 2:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zCQkyxHJVUI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/zCQkyxHJVUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=29\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=29<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Saw Otsu Matsuri again in Oct. 2013. See my <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/52tjGe470eA\">higher quality video here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held on Oct. 11-12, 2008, this is another major float festival in Shiga where they display and pull ornate floats along the city streets. I went to see both the festival eve called Yoimiya when they display the floats on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-otsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}