{"id":3037,"date":"2016-12-11T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2017-12-20T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T08:29:42","slug":"artists-enjoyed-watching-blindfolded-female-sumo-event-at-shrine-nearby-studio-kura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/2016\/12\/artists-enjoyed-watching-blindfolded-female-sumo-event-at-shrine-nearby-studio-kura\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists enjoyed watching Blindfolded Female Sumo event at Shrine nearby Studio Kura!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our current residence artists enjoyed watching the Bellows Festival: Blindfolded Female Sumo (Fuigo Matsuri: Mekakushi Onna Zumo \u3075\u3044\u3054\u5927\u796d\u30fb\u76ee\u96a0\u3057\u5973\u76f8\u64b2) at Masue Goro Inari Shrine nearby Studio Kura today! <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/1\/530\/31565563455_653ed1b5c9_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7899\"><\/p>\n<p>Blindfold Female Sumo is told that it begun after the end of the war by praying for bumper crop, and expressing the difficulty of passing through by hiding the eyes and taking sumo wrestling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/723\/31193460380_846ea5d3a0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7871\"><br \/>\nA sumo referee with gorgeous Kimono <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/420\/31565533085_e167c18f71_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7857\"><br \/>\nSumo is normally played by men, however at this event, the players were shifted to women as there were so many injured players when men used to. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/1\/436\/31565518275_c932959ec4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7865\"><br \/>\nFemale sumo players in east side<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/1\/221\/31193649970_db0f1c7dbb_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7875\"><br \/>\nYokozuna (sumo champion) last year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/418\/31419146052_916e7c7123_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7881\"><br \/>\nWearing a hood depicting the face of the Seven Lucky Gods, the player can only find the rival by peoples calls. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/1\/649\/31449832751_d24a65c075_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7880\"><br \/>\nLady calling each player&#8217;s name before each fighting starts<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/48\/31533315356_e998cd4d61_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"_DSC7891\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/688\/30756099853_98a965d51e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"_DSC7909\"><br \/>\nIn very relaxing atmosphere, everybody enjoyed this local traditional event with lots of laughs!  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/472\/30724341924_9fe8485520_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" alt=\"_DSC7828\"><\/p>\n<p>This unique event is conducted on 2nd week of Sunday every December, December has some traditional events here like Shimenawa, a sacred straw rope making, and mochi making!<br \/>\nsee more details for; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itoshima-kanko.net\/?contents-cat=%E3%81%B5%E3%81%84%E3%81%94%E5%A4%A7%E7%A5%AD%E3%83%BB%E7%9B%AE%E9%9A%A0%E3%81%97%E5%A5%B3%E7%9B%B8%E6%92%B2\">Bellows Festival: Blindfolded Female Sumo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our current residence artists enjoyed watching the Bellows Festival: Blindfolded Female Sumo (Fuigo Matsuri: Mekakushi Onna Zumo \u3075\u3044\u3054\u5927\u796d\u30fb\u76ee\u96a0\u3057\u5973\u76f8\u64b2) at Masue Goro Inari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,1],"tags":[226,225],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-and-seasonal-event","category-studio-kura-air","tag-female-sumo","tag-winter-event"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiokura.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}