{"id":196,"date":"2011-11-15T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=196"},"modified":"2013-10-05T00:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:49:24","slug":"15-november-2011-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2011\/11\/15\/15-november-2011-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day\/","title":{"rendered":"15 November, 2011: Shichi-Go-San (\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09) &#8220;Seven-Five-Three Day&#8221; (Jonathan &#038; Joshua Bohannan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6114010034178_A_20111105_154311_0055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-239\" title=\"StudioMario\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6114010034178_A_20111105_154311_0055-e1321781515265-254x300.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6114010034178_A_20111105_154311_0055-e1321781515265-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6114010034178_A_20111105_154311_0055-e1321781515265-867x1024.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Jonathan and Joshua Bohannan, 7 and 5 years old)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shichi-Go-San<\/strong> (\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09, lit. &#8220;Seven-Five-Three&#8221;)\u00a0is a traditional\u00a0<a title=\"Rite of passage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rite_of_passage\">rite of passage<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival\">festival<\/a> day in\u00a0<a title=\"Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\">Japan<\/a> for three- and seven-year-old\u00a0<a title=\"Girl\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Girl\">girls<\/a> and three- and five-year-old\u00a0<a title=\"Boy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boy\">boys<\/a>, held annually on <strong>November 15<\/strong>. \u00a0 As\u00a0<em>Shichi-Go-San<\/em> is not a national holiday, it is generally observed on the nearest weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shichi-Go-San<\/em> is said to have originated in the\u00a0<a title=\"Heian Period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heian_Period\">Heian Period<\/a> amongst court nobles who would celebrate the passage of their children into middle childhood. The ages three, five and seven are consistent with Japanese\u00a0<a title=\"Numerology\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numerology\">numerology<\/a>, which dictates that odd numbers are lucky. The practice was set to the fifteenth of the month during the\u00a0<a title=\"Kamakura Period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamakura_Period\">Kamakura Period<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jonathan and Joshua Bohannan, 7 and 5 years old) Shichi-Go-San (\u4e03\u4e94\u4e09, lit. &#8220;Seven-Five-Three&#8221;)\u00a0is a traditional\u00a0rite of passage and\u00a0festival day in\u00a0Japan for three- and seven-year-old\u00a0girls and three- and five-year-old\u00a0boys, held annually on November 15. \u00a0 As\u00a0Shichi-Go-San is not a national holiday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2011\/11\/15\/15-november-2011-shichi-go-san-%e4%b8%83%e4%ba%94%e4%b8%89-seven-five-three-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}