#Kytoto

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🇯🇵 Yasaka Shrine 八坂神社

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Found a cute cow sculpture at the top of the Shrine!

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Good morning! Do telephone booths still exist? This one does, although it was in Japan and surprisingly in good shape. #japan #kytoto #japanadventures #flashback #phonebooth #publicphone

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Explore Japan Lightroom Contest 🚨 // Hey guys! I'm super excited to finally reveal why I was in Japan last month 😃 It was for a campaign collaboration between JNTO (Japan National Tourism Organisation) and @adobe called @explorejapan_lightroom! 🙂 You can see my full itinerary and what locations I visited on my trip by swiping up on my stories! 👆🏻 - There is also an editing contest which you can enter! To enter: 1. Download 2 RAW photos that I took during the trip from www.explorejapan-lightroom.jp (or swipe up on my stories) 2. Edit the images however you like using Adobe @lightroom 3. Post your edits to Instagram using the tag #challengejapanphoto01 and @explorejapan-lightroom (in the caption) as a carousel showing the Before and After - Head to my stories to see how I've edited those 2 photos! 🎨 Swipe left to see how I edited this shot above at a classic spot in Kytoto (Ninenzaka)! 👈🏻 I waited 2 hours in the rain with @kohki to get this place empty so we could do some light painting! 😆😅 - Really looking forward to seeing how you edit those 2 photos as well as a few more getting released soon from other amazing photographers @helloemilie @jasoncharleshill @jordhammond and @calsnape - we will be judging the contest too! 😉 Best of luck fam! - #challengejapanphoto #enjoymyjapan #visitjapanjp #adobe #lightroom #explorejapanlightroom @photoshop (at Kyoto, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7x2SC1nTbR/?igshid=f92fpu787aqf

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Two pretty birds perched on a branch. #Japan #kytoto #wildlife

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[teaandamovie]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, 2016).

Garth Edwards career trajectory appears to film observers as an exponential growth function. Starting with Monsters (2010) which famously cost next to nothing (in Hollywood terms), he was tapped, almost unimaginatively to direct the biggest monster of all, Godzilla (2014).

It was a critical-ish and box office-ish success, and it was amidst the release of Godzilla that he was brought on to direct an installment of arguably the biggest franchise in the world, Star Wars.

Much has been made of the behind the scenes shenanigans of the production (reshoots, changes to the plot, ringer director) but I would hit on one specific aspect that seems very much Gareth Edwards.

Godzilla the monster is a parable for the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The original film superimposes a giant, city-levelling monster in place of the Bomb. This was to get around post-war censors, and it’s telling how to this day that the threat of nuclear weapons is so pervasive in Japanese culture that there is an irony in the initial attempts to stifle it.

While the symbolism of Godzilla has changed over time (now seen as a saviour, emerging to take out other evil monsters), the 2014 film touches on these nuclear risks. Nuclear tests in the Pacific are now retro actively explained as attempts by the U.S. military to kill Godzilla, and the film’s inciting incident is a nuclear meltdown in the vein of the Fukushima disaster in 2010.

But, most overtly, in the trailer for the film shown at ComicCon in 2013, they used a speech of physicist Robert Oppenheimer recounting his reaction to the successful detonation of the first nuclear weapon, the Trinity test:

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Oppenheimer was a fluent Sanskrit reader, though his interpretation of the text is his own. But in this context the pairing is relatively straight forward: nuclear weapons are death, and Godzilla (representing nuclear weapons, possibly even born from nuclear weapons), is also death.

Now, this is a bit of a bait and switch: the early trailers clearly pointed to Godzilla as a threat, though the film itself has him fight off against the MUTO’s,thus kind of nullifying him as “death, the destroyer of worlds” and instead is the saviour.

I digress, the point is this infamous speech was specifically brought up in the advertising for Godzilla.

Cut to Rogue One. Star Wars loves its world ending weapons, the Death Star, Star-Killer Base, but interestingly they never truly served as parables for real-world nuclear weapons. In fact, the film goes out of its way to dismiss them as less important than The Force, with Vader mocking the officers on the Death Star.

So, it is interesting that the one Star Wars film that is most devoid of The Force is the one that puts great reverence in the destructive potential of the Death Star, and interestingly the Death Star is only used at partial destructive capability. 

The reason the destructive power is better conveyed is that the destruction is more tangible, more tactile. We know what it looks like when a city is destroyed: the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, dozens of other Japanese cities, Dresden, the Blitz: all of these are still within living memory.

All of this is to get back to one thing: the reaction to the first test of the Death Star on the city of Jedha. Above are shots of the crews reaction to the test and it is not a coincidence that it mirrors that of the description Oppenheimer gave.

There is another little twist here, which is the choice of Jedha. Jedha is a holy site for the Jedi and the believers in The Force. Jedha is a source of Kyber Crystals used in lightsabers and scrounged up for use in the Death Star. When Jyn and Cassian visit the planet they pick up the monk Chirrut, as if to underscore the religious importance of the city. And it is this, the fact that it is a sacred site that drums up such fervor in the rebels that later attack Scarif, most pointedly in the Rebel soldiers shouting “For Jedha!” as they storm the beach.

Why mention this? Because Rogue One went there where real life did not. When the military was choosing targets for the deployment of the Little Boy bomb on Japan, the main choice was Kytoto. It had been left untouched by allied bombing and housed a lot of industry. But, it also housed numerous temples, shrines and World Heritage sites. Secretary of War Harry Stimson, who had visited Kyoto numerous times that argued against it as a target,and wrote privately in his diary:

“the bitterness which would be caused by such a wanton act might make it impossible during the long post-war period to reconcile the Japanese to us in that area rather than to the Russian”

And there you go; Godzilla, the Bomb, The Force, Kyoto, all brought together.

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🇯🇵 Kyoto Sento Imperial Palace 京都仙洞御所

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🇯🇵 Kiyomizu-dera 清水寺

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🇯🇵 Yasaka Kōshin-dō Temple 八坂庚申堂

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🇯🇵 Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama 嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま

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🇯🇵 Nijō Castle 元離宮二条城

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🇯🇵 Heian Jingu Shrine 平安神宮

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🇯🇵 Taisho HANANA 鯛匠 HANANA

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🇯🇵 Itoh Kyuemon 伊藤久右衛門

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🇯🇵 Smart Coffee スマート珈琲店