{"id":1937,"date":"2012-02-05T23:28:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-02-05\/1937"},"modified":"2012-02-09T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:41:12","slug":"setsubun-at-the-heian-shrine-attak-and-repulsion-of-the-evil-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-02-05\/1937","title":{"rendered":"Setsubun at the Heian Shrine: Attack (and Repulsion) of the Evil Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Continuing from this weekend's Setsubun<\/i> Festival at the Heian Shrine<\/a> in Kyoto,\nwith nasty demons representing the ills of the past year, being banished in the hope of a better<\/span> year to come...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBamboo Sprig<\/span>\njust an excuse to get the shrine building out of focus in the background\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWaiting<\/span>\nfor the event to begin\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nDoor<\/span>\nslightly misleading\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 360 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCherry<\/span>\nwill be magnificent in about two months\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 3600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEaves Above Me<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEvil Spirits Make Their Appearance <\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRichly Appointed<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>4000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMenacing the Crowd<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCelebration of Victory<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>5000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nGoading Dance<\/span>\n“tee-hee-hee, it's great to be an evil demon lording over powerless humanity<\/i>”\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>3200 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEnter the Cavalry<\/span>\nbeans a flyin'\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSmack<\/span>\nright in the kisser\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 cropped — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThwarted Counter Attack<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOn the Run<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNah, None of That<\/span>\nDriving away demons with relaxed nonchalance\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBanished for Good<\/span>\nat least until next year\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I captioned the third picture with “Door, slightly misleading” because,\nas you can see in the final photo, what look like door handles are really\nbrackets to hold a huge<\/span> brace.<\/p>\n\n

Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from this weekend's Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine in Kyoto, with nasty demons representing the ills of the past year, being banished in the hope of a better year to come...<\/p>

I captioned the third picture with \"Door, slightly misleading\" because, as you can see in the final photo, what look like door handles are really brackets to hold a huge brace.<\/p>

Continued here...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,26,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}