{"id":16270,"date":"2011-01-19T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2011-01-19T01:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:46:38","slug":"foxhound87-awesome-originates-in-the-iga-ninja-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/foxhound87-awesome-originates-in-the-iga-ninja-village\/","title":{"rendered":"FoxHound87: &#8220;Awesome&#8221; originates in the Iga Ninja Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Joshua Small <\/em><\/strong><em>is a First Year JET currently living in Ikaruga-cho, Nara-ken and has been chronicling his experience on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Snorlax87<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I visited the ninja village of Iga in Mie Prefecture.  There were (are?)  two major ninja clans in Japan: Iga Clan in Mie and the Koga clan in  Shiga.\u00a0 I boarded the train bound for Kamo, Kyoto then switched  to the super rural trains to get to Iga. It only took me about 1 \u00bd hrs  to get there. The scenery of Mie was very pretty, but also pretty empty.  It\u2019s hard to believe there is a prefecture more rural than Nara. It was  also snowing. I have experienced a little bit of snow in Nara City, but  it was just a small dusting. ACTUAL snow was falling in Mie. The  Floridian in me was actually excited, especially because I was warm and  cozy in the train.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Iga is covered in ninja imagery. Ninja cartoons animals,  fake weapons shops, and tourist pamphlets line the streets near the  train station.  I met with my crew (about 11 other Nara JETs) and we  made out way to the ninja museum.\u00a0 The entrance to the ninja museum is a stone stairway. The addition of black ice made this trek a bit more nerve-racking.<\/p>\n<p>We finally reached the entrance, paid for the museum AND show, then  entered the replica ninja house.  Our ninja guide sat us down in the  tatami room and began her explanation of the ninja house.  Because she  did not speak English, she pulled down from shades which had the English  explanation printed on them.  The guide showed me all the ways my  apartment sucks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"> <\/a>to read the rest of the post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Small is a First Year JET currently living in Ikaruga-cho, Nara-ken and has been chronicling his experience on his blog Snorlax87. I visited the ninja village of Iga in Mie Prefecture. There were (are?) two major ninja clans in Japan: Iga Clan in Mie and the Koga clan in Shiga.\u00a0 I boarded the train [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16271,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/16271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}