{"id":27152,"date":"2012-09-25T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:08:31","slug":"2012-kitadaito-festival-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/25\/2012-kitadaito-festival-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Kitadaito Festival Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_7232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_7232-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Torii Gate at Kitadaito Shrine\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/20\/current-okinawa-jet-debuts-with-new-book-samurai-awakening\/\"><strong>Benjamin Martin<\/strong><\/a>, a 5th year JET in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755130&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Okinawa<\/a>, publisher of the blog <em><strong><a title=\"More on the Kitadaito Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and author of the fantasy novel\u00a0<\/em><strong><a title=\"Samurai Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai Awakening<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>(Tuttle).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every year on September 22 and 23 Kitadaito Village celebrates its largest Festival. \u00a0These dates mark the beginning of autumn. \u00a0Kitadaito, also known as north Borodino island, is a place of 12sq kilometers 320 kilometers east of the Okinawan mainland. \u00a0It is unique in that it was settled by residents of Hachijo Island (near Tokyo) but is part of Okinawa Prefecture. \u00a0Over the past 100 years the island has become a unique chanpuru (mix) of both cultures.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from the University of Arizona, I spent three years living and teaching on Kitadaito, and returned this year after more than a year on Kumejima. \u00a0It was great to re-experience old memories and make new ones as the festival has changed since my time there. \u00a0Watch the accompanying video for a chance to experience a few bits from this truly unique day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mALupCDXLw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">more about the Kitadaito Festival<\/a> on Ben&#8217;s blog &#8212;\u00a0<strong><a title=\"More on the Kitadaito Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Benjamin Martin, a 5th year JET in Okinawa, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com\u00a0and author of the fantasy novel\u00a0Samurai Awakening\u00a0(Tuttle). Every year on September 22 and 23 Kitadaito Village celebrates its largest Festival. \u00a0These dates mark the beginning of autumn. \u00a0Kitadaito, also known as north Borodino island, is a place of 12sq kilometers 320 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"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":[7,53,368,20,6],"tags":[771,732,191,772,1383],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-events","category-traveltourism","category-video","category-writers","tag-culture","tag-festival","tag-japan","tag-more-things-japanese","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-73W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27223,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}