{"id":189666,"date":"2026-07-04T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e6%b3%a5%e6%89%93%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:54:25","slug":"%e6%b3%a5%e6%89%93%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/189666\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud-beating festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The information provided reflects the details available at the time of the survey.<br \/>Please note that facility details may change due to the facility\u2019s circumstances, so please check for the latest information before visiting.\nThis content has been translated using machine translation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Information provided by: JTB Publishing<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This content uses automatic translation services. Automatic translations may not always be accurate.<br \/>Please note that the translated content may differ from the original meaning. We ask for your understanding when using this content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chosen deputy priest, selected by omikuji, changes into pure white garments and drinks sake from a large cup before proceeding to the local dosojin about 500 meters away, during which 12 children throw mud at the deputy priest. This is a strange festival designated as an intangible folk cultural asset of Fukuoka Prefecture. It is said that the more mud sticks to the deputy priest's body, the better the harvest will be that year. *From 2020 onwards, only the religious ceremony (from 12:00) is held, and the procession (mud throwing) is not conducted.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20583,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189666","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/189666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/189666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}