{"id":27211,"date":"2012-10-03T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27211"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:09:53","slug":"2012-kitadaito-festival-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/03\/2012-kitadaito-festival-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Kitadaito Festival Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Posted by\u00a0<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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755130&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Okinawa<\/a>, publisher of the blog\u00a0<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><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRGDpNCFRrw?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>The 2012 Kitadaito Festival was a two-day event in September marking an important time of community inclusion and tradition. The second day of the Festival was on the 23rd and, as in years past, featured sumo competitions as a traditional Japanese offering to the kami and ancestors of the village. If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to <a title=\"2012 Kitadaito Festival Day 1\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out my post on day one<\/a>. Below is a video showing excerpts from the day, with more information and photos farther down. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8279.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Okinawan Dance\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">Sumo Competitions<\/h2>\n<p>The second day began in the morning on Sunday around 9:00. Villagers gathered again before the Daito-gu shrine. There, a Shinto priest led a ceremony blessing both the sumo ground and the people. New babies were also brought before the shrine by their parents so that the adults could ask for safe and prosperous lives for their children.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_8282.jpg\" alt=\"Shinto Priest and Sumo ring\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After the ceremonies were complete, the villagers settled in to watch Edo and <a title=\"Okinawan Sumo\" href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/okinawan-sumo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawan Sumo<\/a> competitions. Although Kitadaito is in Okinawan Prefecture, it was originally settled by people from Hachijo Island, which means the traditions of the island are a unique mix of mainland Japan and Okinawa. At the Daitogusai festival, both types of sumo take place. Pre-school through junior high students take part in edo style sumo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Read the rest and see more photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/2012-kitadaito-festival-day-two\/\"><em>MoreThingsJapanese.com!<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by\u00a0Benjamin Martin, a 5th year JET in\u00a0Okinawa, publisher of the blog\u00a0MoreThingsJapanese.com\u00a0and author of the fantasy novel\u00a0Samurai Awakening\u00a0(Tuttle). The 2012 Kitadaito Festival was a two-day event in September marking an important time of community inclusion and tradition. The second day of the Festival was on the 23rd and, as in years past, featured sumo competitions [&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":[53,369,76,368,20,6],"tags":[732,191,785,1383],"class_list":["post-27211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japan-local","category-photography","category-traveltourism","category-video","category-writers","tag-festival","tag-japan","tag-okinawa","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-74T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211","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=27211"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27224,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions\/27224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}