{"id":383,"date":"2009-04-30T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:46:50","slug":"tsuchiyama-saio-princess-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/tsuchiyama-saio-princess-procession\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsuchiyama Saio Princess Procession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29, 2009, I saw the Saio Princess Procession in Tsuchiyama, <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Koka,_Shiga\">Koka<\/a> (\u3042\u3044\u306e\u571f\u5c71\u658e\u738b\u7fa4\u884c). It was very nice. The Saio princess was an unmarried, young Imperial princess, often the Emperor&#8217;s daughter, who was appointed (by divination) to be the High Priestess of <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=869\">Ise Grand Shrines<\/a> in Mie Prefecture from the 7th to 14th centuries. Whenever there was a new emperor, there would be a new Saio princess appointed. She would travel in a procession from Kyoto to Ise, taking 5 nights and 6 days. She lodged in a special temporary palace (disassembled after she lodged in it) called the Tongu, and one Tongu was in Tsuchiyama. So this festival reenacts this procession.\u00a0It&#8217;s also a continuation of Kyoto&#8217;s famous Aoi Matsuri.<\/p>\n<p>I shot both video and stills:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xz_ryfa5dT4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video link: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Xz_ryfa5dT4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Xz_ryfa5dT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=733\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=733<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 29, 2009, I saw the Saio Princess Procession in Tsuchiyama, Koka (\u3042\u3044\u306e\u571f\u5c71\u658e\u738b\u7fa4\u884c). It was very nice. The Saio princess was an unmarried, young Imperial princess, often the Emperor&#8217;s daughter, who was appointed (by divination) to be the High&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring","category-koka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}