{"id":24865,"date":"2021-03-10T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/780-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:36:18","slug":"780-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/780-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Akiba Shishi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\u79cb\u8449\u7345\u5b50\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Picc0OH5Vww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Location: Kami-Jinego, Chokai-machi, Yurihonjo City<br \/>\nSite(s) of performance: Akiba Shrine and other places in the community<br \/>\nDate(s): March 24 in the lunar calendar<br \/>\nDesignation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property<br \/>\nCategory: Shishi-Kagura<br \/>\nThe Akiba Shishi (Akiba Lion Dance) of Kami-Jinego is a shishimai (lion dance) for the annual festival of Akiba Shrine, managed for many years by the Mitsumori family, in charge of the shrine\u2019s administration. The shishimai is widely believed to have effects against fire. The lion head was a contribution by Lord Ikoma of Yashima Domain. The lion and its suite goes around the community, and at each house the lion head is bent over the entrance to purify the place and water drops from a dipped branch of tsuge (Japanese box tree) are sprayed against the eaves, a magical procedure to suppress fire from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/shishikagura\">Lion Kagura (Shishi-Kagura)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Kami-Jinego, Chokai-machi, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Akiba Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): March 24 in the lunar calendar Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishi-Kagura The Akiba Shishi (Akiba Lion Dance) of Kami-Jinego is a shishimai (lion dance) for the annual festival of Akiba Shrine, managed for many years &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/780-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Akiba Shishi<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shishikagura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}