{"id":37697,"date":"2014-01-26T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T12:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37697"},"modified":"2014-01-15T23:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T03:29:27","slug":"japans-new-years-day-celebration-oshogatsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37697","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day Celebration: Oshogatsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 26, 2014, 2:00 PM &#8211; 4:00 PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Japans-New-Years-Day-Celebration-Oshogatsu.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[37697]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Japans-New-Years-Day-Celebration-Oshogatsu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taiko drumming session I: 2 pm<br \/>\nTaiko drumming session II: 3 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate Japan\u2019s New Year\u2019s holiday at Japan Society\u2019s annual Oshogatsu event and join us for many traditional New Year\u2019s activities. Families and children can watch live taiko drumming and accompanying lion dancing (shishi-mai), followed by a brief taiko session (taiko performances will begin at 2 pm and 3 pm.) Enjoy rice pounding (mochi-tsuki), calligraphy (kakizome), kite(tako)-making, a funny face game (fukuwarai) and top spinning (koma-mawashi). Recommended for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/japans-new-years-day-celebration-oshogatsu-5\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 26, 2014, 2:00 PM &#8211; 4:00 PM Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37702,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions\/37702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}