{"id":1685,"date":"2010-11-23T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-11-23T18:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:53:54","slug":"video-saijo-matsuri-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/video-saijo-matsuri-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Saijo Matsuri 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7458088\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7458088\">Saijo Matsuri 2009 ????<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/bradkremer\">Brad Kremer<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saijo Matsuri is a festival held every year in October in Saijo, Japan. Saijo Matsuri is a three day event celebrating the fall harvest. They carry 135 of these 700kg(1500lbs) Danjiri all over town and parade them in a very enthusiastic fashion. They will all be in one spot for 4-5 hours and then carry it to the next 10-20km away to the next spot and continue the fun. And they do this, almost non-stop, day and night for three days.<\/p>\n<p>They lift these Danjiri up over their heads and present them to the Kami(God). Sometimes when they get a good bounce going the Danjiri will actually lift away from their grip several centimeters in the air and hopefully they catch them again. And then there are 7 larger Mikoshi that come from a neighboring town, Niihama, to join in the festivities. These larger ones weigh a tremendous 2.5 tons.<\/p>\n<p>This film focuses on the second day, Oct. 17th. It starts at 1am, goes to three locations and ends around 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest watching with good speakers or headphones to get the full effect of being immersed into this amazing event. Enjoy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Saijo Matsuri 2009 ???? from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Saijo Matsuri is a festival held every year in October in Saijo, Japan. Saijo Matsuri is a three day event celebrating the fall harvest. They carry 135 of these 700kg(1500lbs) Danjiri all over town and parade them in a very enthusiastic fashion. They will all be in one spot for<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/video-saijo-matsuri-2009\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video: Saijo Matsuri 2009&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}