{"id":373,"date":"2011-11-27T06:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T06:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-11-27T06:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T06:07:28","slug":"good-fortune-has-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Good Fortune Has Tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Friday night, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticjapan.com\/hanazono-jinja.html\"><strong>Hanazono Shrine <\/strong>in <strong>Shinjuku<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377\" title=\"HanazonoToriNoIchi251111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/HanazonoToriNoIchi251111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/HanazonoToriNoIchi251111.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/HanazonoToriNoIchi251111-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I took this pic at the <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com\/Tori-no-ichi\"><strong>Tori no ichi<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; a festival about <strong>good luck<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 These&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" title=\"Kumade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Kumade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Kumade.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Kumade-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;are bamboo <strong>rakes<\/strong>, to help you &#8216;rake in&#8217; good fortune, each one so elaborately decorated that they made the place feel like <strong>a dragon&#8217;s treasure horde<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378\" title=\"ToriNoIchi2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ToriNoIchi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ToriNoIchi2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ToriNoIchi2-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Other stalls at the festival were selling all kinds of delicious things to eat, including my new favourite Japanese food, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takoyaki\"><strong>takoyaki<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379\" title=\"Takoyaki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Takoyaki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Takoyaki.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Takoyaki-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Under the sauces and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonito_flakes\">bonito flakes<\/a> imagine six small portions of scrambled egg fried into <strong>golfball shapes<\/strong> filled with pickled ginger, green onions and (you can see a <strong>tentacle<\/strong>, above top right) <strong>these guys<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380\" title=\"TakoyakiSign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TakoyakiSign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TakoyakiSign.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TakoyakiSign-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn&#8217;t buy a rake. 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