{"id":565,"date":"2009-09-30T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:17:59","slug":"suijo-taiko-drum-dance-and-hinade-sumo-in-maibara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/suijo-taiko-drum-dance-and-hinade-sumo-in-maibara\/","title":{"rendered":"Suijo Taiko Drum Dance and Hinade Sumo in Maibara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Held only once every 5 years, the Suijo Hachiman Shrine Taiko Odori Dance was held on Sept. 23, 2009 in\u00a0the neighborhood of Suijo (\u6625\u7167) near the foot of <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=112\">Mt. Ibuki<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Maibara,_Shiga\">Maibara<\/a>. The dance was originally a rain-making dance. It features 15 yakko-furi men (with body paintings) who carry luggage for samurai, 35 flute players from the local elementary school, and about 50 taiko drummers. It was a very impressive and colorful performance. Got some great video footage and photos. Video in two parts. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/BJZhb\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61q1TvodzOs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XcDTbURRbZc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video link Part 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/61q1TvodzOs\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/61q1TvodzOs<br \/>\n<\/a>Video link Part 2:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XcDTbURRbZc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/XcDTbURRbZc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=771\">Suijo Taiko Drum Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also saw the Hinade Shrine Sumo Odori dance held annually at Mt. Hinade near <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Sakata_Station\">Sakata Station<\/a> on the Hokuriku Line. Held on Sept. 21, 2009, it featured mainly children&#8217;s sumo and a centuries-old sumo dance and sumo jinku singing. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/7qC0j\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V24Wm9d6PI0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPhotos: <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=24\">Hinade Shrine Sumo Dance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held only once every 5 years, the Suijo Hachiman Shrine Taiko Odori Dance was held on Sept. 23, 2009 in\u00a0the neighborhood of Suijo (\u6625\u7167) near the foot of Mt. Ibuki in Maibara. The dance was originally a rain-making dance. It&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autumn","category-maibara","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}