{"id":1190,"date":"2021-03-03T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/?page_id=1190"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T05:06:46","slug":"so121602","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/?page_id=1190&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Japanese cedar called &#8220;Takao Tako Sugi(Octopus cedar)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/121602.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/121601.jpg\" alt=\"\u9ad8\u5c3e\u305f\u3053\u30b9\u30ad\u3099\" class=\"wp-image-603\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This giant Japanese cedar tree is called &#8220;Tako Sugi&#8221; (octopus cedar) because its bent roots look like the legs of an octopus. It is designated as a natural monument by Hachioji City.<br>There is a legend about the tree as follows.<br>A long time ago, when the several Tengu were working on the approach to Yakuo-in Temple, they found a large cedar in the way.<br>After some discussion, they decided that they had no choice but to cut it down.<br>But once the cedar knew it, within a night, it bent its roots to clear the way.<br>People of former days were grateful for this legend, saying that it was the divine power of the Tengu, and enshrined this cedar as a cedar of luck to &#8220;open the way&#8221;, which has been handed down to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This giant Japanese cedar tree is called &#8220;Tako Sugi&#8221; (octopus cedar) because its bent roots look l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1190\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.japan-heritage-soto.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}