{"id":176,"date":"2006-04-09T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-09\/176"},"modified":"2007-06-30T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T11:27:57","slug":"heian-shrine-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-09\/176","title":{"rendered":"Heian Shrine in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

\n\nYesterday, Fumie and I went to an event at the Heian Shrine where they had\nlive viola\/guitar music while you could stroll around looking at their\ncherry blossoms, all lit up by hundreds of flood lights. I didn't<\/span> have my\ncamera with me, but most of the tens of thousands of others who were there\ndid. It was very<\/span> crowded, unfortunately, just this side of oppressively so.\n(At about $15 per person, it wouldn't surprise me if they grossed at least\nhalf a million<\/span> dollars just this weekend alone.)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt was beautiful. I'd been inside<\/span> the shrine's huge garden area (map<\/a>)\nonly two other times, both after relatively rare heavy snowfalls (both\n2005, one in December<\/a>\nand one in February<\/a>).\nThose post-snowfall visits hadn't left me with the impression that there\nwere many cherry trees, but wow, they were everywhere<\/b>, in many\ndifferent varieties, from pure white to the deepest blood pink. (The\nprevious visits hadn't left me with the impression that so many people\ncould fit, either; previously, we'd had the place essentially to\nourselves.)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nNot having had my camera yesterday, I offer<\/span> a few<\/span> pictures from the\nsnowstorm last\nDecember<\/a>, which was the most snow Kyoto had seen in the last 50 years:\n\n<\/p>\n\n

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\n\nAlthough I didn't understand until last night, the bamboo lattice you see\nin the picture above, which is all over the place, is there to support the\nblossom-laden branches of a willowish<\/span> kind of cherry tree called beni\nshidare zakura<\/i> (“crimson willow cherry”). The structure<\/span> in\nthe background is a covered<\/span> bridge.\n\n<\/p>

Here are two other scenes....<\/p>\n\n

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See the “Followups and Related Posts” box below for links to additional Heian-Shrine snow scenes...<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Fumie and I went to an event at the Heian Shrine where they had live viola\/guitar music while you could stroll around looking at their cherry blossoms, all lit up by hundreds of flood lights. I didn't have my camera with me, but most of the tens of thousands of others who were there did. It was very crowded, unfortunately, just this side of oppressively so. (At about $15 per person, it wouldn't surprise me if they grossed at least half a million dollars just this weekend alone.) <\/p>

It was beautiful. I'd been inside the shrine's huge [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}