{"id":126,"date":"2016-02-24T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:16:41","slug":"a-visit-to-kyoto-feb-24-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/a-visit-to-kyoto-feb-24-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Kyoto Feb. 24, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1418-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1418-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1418 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1431-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1431-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1431 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1439-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1439-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1439 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1449-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1449-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1449 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1455-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1455-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1455 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1460-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1460-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1460 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1464-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1464-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1464 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1469-1000x750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1469-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1469 (1000x750)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to visit Kyoto this winter.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the third consecutive year that I&#8217;ve visited Kyoto at this season, February, with my great mentor in the sword business, Mochida-san. Since it has a deep sword culture related to Japanese history, I wanted to see this with my own eyes rather than only boast about having visited on a school trip in my youth. Mochida-san, being very knowledgeable, explains things to me that deepen my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>This year, among other places, we visited &#8220;Uji Byodoin Shrine&#8221;, which is depicted on the back side of the 10-yen coin, &#8220;Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine&#8221;, which has 1,000 red Torii gates and was chosen as Japan&#8217;s Number 1 tourist spot for foreigners in 2014, as well as &#8220;Nanzenji Temple&#8221; and &#8220;Kyoto Gyoen Park&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We also visited the &#8220;Tamayama Meishi-to Kyoto Branch&#8221; sword trader in Kyoto Higashiyama, and that night we enjoyed the delicious Kyoto cuisine with the young shop owner Tamayama-san.<\/p>\n<p>I returned home greatly refreshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to visit Kyoto this winter. This makes the third consecutive year that I&#8217;ve visited Kyoto at this season, February, with my great mentor in the sword business, Mochida-san. Since it has a deep sword culture related to Japanese history, I wanted to see this with my own eyes rather than only boast about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/a-visit-to-kyoto-feb-24-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Visit to Kyoto Feb. 24, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touken-matsumoto.jp\/eng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}