{"id":464,"date":"2013-06-03T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/?p=464"},"modified":"2017-03-16T05:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T05:44:45","slug":"day-29-temple-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Day 29 &#8211; Temple 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last stop for the day. This is the major temple for Matsuyama. It&#8217;s big and a little confusing in its layout compared to smaller temples.<\/p>\n<p>This one and temples 48-50 were deliberately placed on the east side of the city as a line of spiritual defense by a ruling lord. However, when you read about how often temples were attacked and burnt down by rival lords, I did wonder if their line of thinking was less spiritual defense and early warning fire.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, naturally when I got here I was tired but as it turned out I wandered right into a group of Americans from the University of Chicago who ogled me as this strange exhausted white guy in henro garb. I met one of them later at the onsen and we talked a bit. It was nice.<\/p>\n<p>I also stayed here and the person at the desk took pains to explain that the free stay wasn&#8217;t like a normal stay at a hotel or ryokan. Of course, I already knew this. I was still a little surprised by the space though. It was like an abandoned theatre of some kind. I want to say it could have been a place of worship but there were offices being used as storage below on the main floor so it seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194845.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-194845.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194908.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194908.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-194908.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194942.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-194942.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195103.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195103.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195116.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195116.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195116.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195134.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195134.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195323.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195323.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195323.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195355.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195355.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195355.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195406.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195406.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195418.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195418.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195418.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195458.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195458.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195458.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195509.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-195509.jpg\" alt=\"20130604-195509.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last stop for the day. This is the major temple for Matsuyama. It&#8217;s big and a little confusing in its layout compared to smaller temples. This one and temples 48-50 were deliberately placed on the east side of the city as a line of spiritual defense by a ruling lord. However, when you read about how often temples were attacked and burnt down by rival lords, I did wonder if their line of thinking was less spiritual defense and early warning fire. Anyways, naturally when I got here I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-shikoku"],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130604-194942.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywifeworksatshaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}