Oideyasu! Please take off your shoes.
[This video uses the new QuickTime H.264 high-compression codec. You need to have QT 7 installed, but it's worth it for the greatly improved performance.]
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This is Ginkakuji Temple (The Silver Pavilion, but the actual name is Jisho-ji) in Kyoto during light and moderate snowfall in January, 2006. Ginkakuji does not allow the use of tripods, so this is handheld. Ginkakuji was built by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa in the 1470s and 80s after a 10-year civil war in which most of Kyoto was literally reduced to ashes. Despite this, he wanted to build something that would rival his grandfather's Golden Pavilion of the previous century. The most famous building at the temple, the Kannon-do beside the pond, is one of the few original buildings on the temple grounds.
I can't download the newest version of QuickTime. Would appreciate if I can use the previous version to view the video. However, I love all of your stories.
Happy Chinese New Year
enjoyed the video, thank you
Posted by: englishman on January 26, 2006 10:18 PMThis is fabulous! Brings back the one time I got into Kyoto (only two days). I'm still waiting for the announcement of the DVD.
Posted by: Leonard on January 27, 2006 10:13 AMNice video, again natsukashii! did you take it with your Lumix?
Posted by: rajasthani on January 28, 2006 01:08 AMIf you can't view the video on Windows you can get QT 7 from here if you have Windows XP or 2000.
High quality is only 6.7 MB for 3 minutes, whereas for a WMV or RealVideo file of slightly lower quality it's over 20 MB.
Coming soon, Gumpy, as they say in showbiz.
Rajasthani, the video is a small 3CCD DV camera.
Posted by: nils on January 28, 2006 01:23 AM
