{"id":757,"date":"2013-01-24T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-01-24T23:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T07:13:38","slug":"omiwatari-passage-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/omiwatari-passage-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Omiwatari&#8221; &#8211; Passage of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-758\" alt=\"Lake Suwa's Omiwatari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-1.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-1-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_759\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-759\" alt=\"Lake Suwa's Omiwatari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/01242013-2-268x268.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omiwatari from previous year<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Omiwatari happens in Lake Suwa this year, too.<br \/>\nThis is a natural phenomenon in Lake Suwa, Nagano Prefecture. When the whole lake got frozen, the ice on the lake cracks in a night because ice shrinks when cooling. Water seeps through a crack and it turns to a thin layer of ice. The expansion of the ice during daytime breaks the layer, and the broken ice heaves. Repeating the cycle of ice expansion and contraction due to daily temperature variations makes omiwatari. Shinto priests will judge a fortune about a good or bad harvest for the year by the traces of omiwatari.<br \/>\nAccording to a legend, omiwatari was the route that a male god took to visit a female god.<br \/>\nIf you come to Japan winter, you may want to visit to Lake Suwa to see this fantasy event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omiwatari happens in Lake Suwa this year, too. This is a natural phenomenon in Lake Suwa, Nagano Prefecture. When the whole lake got frozen, the ice on the lake cracks in a night because ice shrinks when cooling. Water seeps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/omiwatari-passage-of-the-gods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}