{"id":840,"date":"2010-10-11T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:49:55","slug":"maibara-hikiyama-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/maibara-hikiyama-matsuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Maihara Hikiyama Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*See updated version of this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/maihara-hikiyama-matsuri\/\">https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/maihara-hikiyama-matsuri\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual Maihara (Maibara) Hikiyama Festival was held on Oct. 9-11, 2010 near <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Maibara_Station\">Maibara Station<\/a>. I went to see it on Oct. 10 (Sun.). It rained in the morning and the floats were covered with blue vinyl sheets, but the rain stopped by early afternoon and I watched it at Yutani Shrine. <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/irQe9\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival was modeled after the more famous <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=9\" target=\"_self\">Nagahama Hikiyama Matsuri<\/a>. Although the Maihara Hikiyama Matsuri is a smaller festival with only three floats (only two of them appear during the festival), it was no less impressive with the highly-trained grade school boys performing kabuki on the ornate floats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the video:<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YkNy7L7dkqU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YkNy7L7dkqU\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/YkNy7L7dkqU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos here: <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=808\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=808<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*See updated version of this post: https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/maihara-hikiyama-matsuri\/ The annual Maihara (Maibara) Hikiyama Festival was held on Oct. 9-11, 2010 near Maibara Station. I went to see it on Oct. 10 (Sun.). It rained in the morning and the floats were&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-maibara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9750,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}