{"id":74,"date":"2007-06-03T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-10-25T04:53:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T19:53:15","slug":"hino-hikiyama-signs-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/hino-hikiyama-signs-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Hino Hikiyama signs in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sign\" src=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/albums\/shiga\/hino\/hinomatsuri\/hi620-IMG_2965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign in Japanese, English, and Korean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Hino-cho,_Shiga\">Hino-cho<\/a> holds the <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=324\">Hino Matsuri Festival<\/a> every year on May 2 and 3. Ornate Hikiyama floats (there are 15 of them) are displayed and paraded along the main roads. If you go to Hino-cho, you can see the large yamagura storehouses for these tall floats. From this year, all the storehouses now have a brand new sign explaining about the float in Japanese, English, and Korean. Each float has an interesting history.<\/p>\n<p>The person who wrote the English is a native speaker of English living in Hino-cho. His name is Austin Moore and he recently sent me email and told me about it.<\/p>\n<p>For a rural town like Hino, it&#8217;s surprising and delightful to see anything in English. Hino also has a Web site with English sightseeing information.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never visited Hino, it&#8217;s a very nice town to visit and people are friendly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=324\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=324<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biwa.ne.jp\/%7Ehino-to\/005.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.biwa.ne.jp\/~hino-to\/005.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hino-cho holds the Hino Matsuri Festival every year on May 2 and 3. Ornate Hikiyama floats (there are 15 of them) are displayed and paraded along the main roads. If you go to Hino-cho, you can see the large yamagura&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}