{"id":67,"date":"2025-03-25T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/?p=67"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:28:07","slug":"seirei-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/info\/seirei-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Seirei Falls (Dragonfly Falls)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69\" src=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/seirei-falls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/seirei-falls.jpg 900w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/seirei-falls-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/seirei-falls-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seirei Falls is a 50-meter waterfall that thunders down the face of a bare cliff and into a stone channel worn smooth by the torrent. On sunny days, spray from the falls sometimes creates miniature rainbows.<\/p>\n<p>According to legend, Japan\u2019s twenty-first ruler, Emperor Y\u016bryaku (c. 417\u2013479), gave the waterfall its name. While hunting near the falls, the emperor was about to fire an arrow when a gadfly bit his elbow. Just as quickly, a dragonfly swooped down like a bodyguard and seized the fly. The emperor was so pleased that he named the area \u201cDragonfly Field\u201d (<em>akitsu no ono<\/em>), and the name was later extended to the falls.<\/p>\n<p>Seirei is one of Kawakami\u2019s most accessible waterfalls, just a 5-minute walk from the Akitsu no Ono Park parking area. Akitsu no Ono Park has flat areas for picnics, a shallow stream where young children can swim, and shady walkways through the park\u2019s cherry trees.<\/p>\n<p>Past a short bridge, several stone torii span the entrance to the pathway that leads to the waterfall. There are three viewing platforms, the lowest of which is at the base of the falls, near its plunge pool. A side path from the middle platform leads to a small wooden temple. Inside are statues of the deities Fud\u014d My\u014d-\u014d and Za\u014d Daigongen, who were worshipped by the Shugend\u014d mountain ascetics who visited these falls, as well as a statue of En no Gy\u014dja (634\u2013c. 701), the founder of Shugend\u014d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seirei Falls is a 50-meter waterfall that thunders down the face of a bare cliff and into a stone channel worn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}