{"id":1318,"date":"2019-08-02T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T04:25:52","slug":"gojo-zaka-pottery-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/en\/info\/gojo-zaka-pottery-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Gojo-zaka Pottery Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toki Matsuri (pottery festival at Gojo-zaka) from Aug 7 through Aug 10 at Gojo zaka.<\/p>\n<p>Shunzan-gama\u00a0(Sennyu-ji, Higashiyama, Kyoto) will set up a booth at north side of Gojo Street, under the first footbridge from Higashi-0oji street. Plesae visit us.<\/p>\n<p>Why the festival\u00a0is taken place in such hottest season every year ?\u00a0Because\u00a0since 1920, the market\u00a0has been\u00a0held during Rokudo Mairi(People in Kyoto visit Rokudo-Chinnou-ji temple to welcome ancestor&#8217;s sprits in Bon season) in order to sell dead stock of\u00a0pottery products\u00a0for bargain price to those visitors who\u00a0come to the temple.\u00a0\u00a0 Bon season in Kyoto ends with Daimonji\u00a0Okuribi (Fires\u00a0which forms Chinese charactor\u00a0at five mountains are\u00a0burnt at night of Aug 16 to send off ancestors&#8217; sprits)<\/p>\n<p>You can also visit\u00a0Rokuhara-Mitsuji-temple where you\u00a0can see the statue of Priest Kuuya\u00a0with\u00a0six small amidadudda from his mouse.\u00a0 Also the temple has the statue of Taira-kiyomori (military leader of late Heian Period : 1000 years ago from now\u00a0).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/media\/\u516d\u9053\u53c2\u308a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/media\/\u516d\u9053\u53c2\u308a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/media\/\u516d\u9053\u53c2\u308a.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toki Matsuri (pottery festival at Gojo-zaka) from Aug 7 through Aug 10 at Gojo zaka. Shunzan-gama\u00a0(Sennyu-ji, Higashiyama, Kyoto) will set up a booth at north side of Gojo Street, under the first footbridge from Higashi-0oji street. Plesae visit us. Why the festival\u00a0is taken place in such hottest season every year ?\u00a0Because\u00a0since 1920, the market\u00a0has been\u00a0held [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1316"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}