{"id":418,"date":"2009-04-12T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T02:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2015-10-27T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T22:05:41","slug":"selling-more-bin-temari-in-aisho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/selling-more-bin-temari-in-aisho\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling more bin-temari in Aisho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/displayimage.php?album=245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bin-temari\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/aisho-cho\/temari\/et021-IMG_1795.jpg\" alt=\"Bin-temari\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bin-temari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chunichi Shimbun newspaper reported on April 9, 2009 that sales of bin-temari in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Aisho-cho,_Shiga\">Aisho town<\/a> has increased by 150% during fiscal 2008 compared to last year. The local tourist association sold some 173 bin-temari this year, priced from 18,000 yen to 30,000 yen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bin&#8221; means bottle, and &#8220;temari&#8221; is a threaded ball. The bin-temari is a round glass ball with a threaded ball inside.\u00a0Bin-temari come in different sizes and an infinite number of threaded-ball designs. It also makes a great wedding gift since the round shape symbolizes harmony of the heart and family. You can also clearly see inside. The bin-temari is a symbol of Aisho.<\/p>\n<p>The tourist association sells the bin-temari through its Web site and at their tourist info counter at <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Echigawa_Station\">Echigawa Station<\/a> on the Omi Railway Line.<\/p>\n<p>Their Web site (Japanese only):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biwa.ne.jp\/~e-machi\/08_bintema.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.biwa.ne.jp\/~e-machi\/08_bintema.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More bin-temari photos here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=245\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=245<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chunichi Shimbun newspaper reported on April 9, 2009 that sales of bin-temari in Aisho town has increased by 150% during fiscal 2008 compared to last year. The local tourist association sold some 173 bin-temari this year, priced from 18,000&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aisho","category-art-in-shiga-prefecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}