{"id":3533,"date":"2015-01-12T23:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2015-01-12T23:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:56:04","slug":"yokozuna-sumo-stone-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/yokozuna-sumo-stone-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Yokozuna Sumo Stone Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/yokozuna-sumo-stone-monuments\/olympus-digital-camera-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1020406-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1020406-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P1020406-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tomioka Hachimangu<\/strong> \u00a0is famous for having served as the site of <strong>sumo tournaments<\/strong> for a century starting in 1684, before it was moved to Ryogoku. Although the shrine no longer hosts sumo tournaments, it continues to maintain close ties to sumo.The shrine precincts contain <strong>monuments<\/strong> celebrating famous\u00a0<\/span>yokozuna\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(the top rank in sumo) and\u00a0<\/span>ozeki\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(the second-highest rank) from the past &amp; one stone slab has hand prints and foot prints of sumo wrestlers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomioka Hachimangu \u00a0is famous for having served as the site of sumo tournaments for a century starting in 1684, before it was moved to Ryogoku. Although the shrine no longer hosts sumo tournaments, it continues to maintain close ties to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/yokozuna-sumo-stone-monuments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}