{"id":3494,"date":"2009-05-09T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2009-05-09T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:44:55","slug":"seasonal-celebration-at-shrine-for-akihabaran-soil-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/seasonal-celebration-at-shrine-for-akihabaran-soil-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Celebration At Shrine For Akihabaran Soil And Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3496\" title=\"Kanda Myojin's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kandamyojin.gif\" alt=\"Kanda Myojin's Logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"42\" \/><br \/>\nA shrine located in the Akihabara electric district and was built more than a millennium ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kandamyoujin.or.jp\/english\/top.html\">Kanda-Myojin<\/a> celebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanda_Matsuri\">its <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">annual<\/span> biyearly\u00a0festival<\/a> in the town, and live streamers are shooting the people who thank the local deity, pray for peace in the town and carry portable shrines on their shoulders.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3497\" title=\"NTT Communications' Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nttcomm_logo.gif\" alt=\"NTT Communications' Logo\" width=\"155\" height=\"38\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3498\" title=\"Kanda Channel\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kandachannel.gif\" alt=\"Kanda Channel\" width=\"179\" height=\"99\" \/><br \/>\nAs of this writing, the festival is under way.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntt.com\/index-e.html\">NTT Communications<\/a> brings its livecast showing many scenes from the eyes of an audience of the festival.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3499\" title=\"Kanda Matsuri Livecast\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kandamatsuri_livecast.jpg\" alt=\"Kanda Matsuri Livecast\" width=\"366\" height=\"325\" \/><br \/>\nLivecast is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/kanda-ch.blog.ocn.ne.jp\">http:\/\/kanda-ch.blog.ocn.ne.jp<\/a>, and all programs start at every top of the hour.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremehanami.com\/\">Extreme Hanami<\/a> which was a social event admiring cherry blossoms in Tokyo&#8217;s hostspots and hosted by Andrew Shuttleworth and Paul Papadimitriou last month, Steven Nagata organizes a walking\/sight-seeing\/tweeting\/livecasting social event called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremematsuri.com\">Extreme Matsuri<\/a>, the event participants are also shooting many scenes around the festival.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3500\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Extreme Matsuri\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/extremematsuri.jpg\" alt=\"Extreme Matsuri\" width=\"366\" height=\"308\" \/><br \/>\nKanda-Matsuri is counted as one of Japan&#8217;s three biggest shrine festivals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"popInMenuContainer\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; display: none; z-index: 100000000; left: 381px; line-height: 1; position: absolute; top: 723px; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shrine located in the Akihabara electric district and was built more than a millennium ago, Kanda-Myojin celebrates its annual biyearly\u00a0festival in the town, and live streamers are shooting the people who thank the local deity, pray for peace in the town and carry portable shrines on their shoulders. 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