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A Few Autumn Photos From Last Year

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Eigenji Temple (永源寺）in Shiga Japan

early morning, fall 2018
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Considering that my last blog post was more than five months ago, I guess it's safe to say that for the most part I'm taking a break
from blogging. But having recently came across photos from a last-year outing to temples in Shiga, Japan, I thought I'd post a few.

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Valerie and Damien

Comparing Settings







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Tidying Up







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Art Display







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Bamboo-Carved Lamps







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Rich Moss







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Rich Light







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Messy Spider







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Subtle Light







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Edge

of the roof in the next photo, from directly below







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Busy

An hour after we arrived








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Path Back to the Driveway







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Rural Road

(when I'm out cycling, I get scenes like this all day)
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Common Photo Spot

at the Kongorinji Temple (金剛輪寺)








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My Take








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“Farmer's Friend”

helpful spider is more tidy than the earlier one

My Second-Longest Ride: 304km Adventure with Gorm

My Latest Ride

304km (189mi) with 3,596m (11,798') of climb

I haven't done a whole lot of riding since last fall, and in particular over the last month or so have been beset on and off by
a persistent throat infection, so I probably bit off more than I could chew with a 300km ride with Gorm, but while he's in town I want to take the opportunity for such epic adventures.

The ostensible goal of the ride was to visit a mountain area of Gifu Prefecture known as “Machu Picchu of Gifu”,
due to a view of it that calls to mind the famous Machu Picchu of Peru.

(I can't remember “Machu Picchu”, so it's somehow morphed to “Pikachu” in my head.)

The simplest route would get us there and back in less than 250km (150mi), but we had other plans.

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Gorm Arrives for our Departure

5:25am







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Empty Streets

We popped over the mountains to Lake Biwa (the largest lake in Japan, introduced four years ago in
“Bicycle Ride Around Japan’s Largest Lake”), and
kept a steady pace along the lake for the 60km to the mountains at its north.

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Heading North







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Gorm

taken at 33 kph (21 mph)







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Passing By

the Shirohige Shrine Gate

two hours in; taken at 34 kph (21 mph)

This shrine gate was first featured on my blog more than 10 years ago, in “Main Gate of the Shirohige Shrine” and also as the
subject of the example photos in “Overexposure and Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof”. It's a bit special to me now as a cyclist because
it was the destination for my first 100+km ride four years ago, as seen here,
which Gorm also joined on.

Today, we barely slowed down as we passed, along the way to Gorm's first 300+km ride. (My longest ride is 408km / 254mi double loop around the lake; today's ride would become my
second-longest).

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Lovely Views

a common theme for rides in this area







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A Lakeside Shrine Gate

that I had never noticed before







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Riding Through Makino







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Back in the Mountains







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Farming Valley







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First Destination Climb of the Day

3½ hours in

In researching areas for the route — research that took much longer than the ride itself — I found what looked to be
a lovely climb (4km /2.4mi at 7%) that for some reason had only a handful of
registered attempts on Strava. Indeed, it was lovely.

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Dangerous Grating

(not so lovely; need to take extreme care on the descent)







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Gorm Waiting at the Top

Without trying hard or even knowing how long the climb was, Gorm missed the KOM by just five seconds. We still had a very long
day ahead, so it was prudent to pace ourselves, but it makes one want to return to give it an earnest effort.

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Good Spirits

We descended into yet another fertile valley...

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Preparing the Rice Paddy







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Approaching the Kusaoka Shrine

草岡神社

Part of the day's agenda was to visit the Kusaoka Shrine (草岡神社), the shrine owned by the family of a friend. I had been here two weeks
earlier to photograph a wedding, so had promised to stop by on my bicycle some time.

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Towering Trees







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After a short visit, we took a detour to Yogo Lake, which looked just lovely in my research. It did not disappoint.
A loop around it took about 11 minutes.

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Starting Around Yogo Lake







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Small Village







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Just Lovely







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Half Way Around

We actually went around it twice. The first time, not knowing just how lovely it would be, we gave it somewhatg of an earnest effort, and ended up with
the #6-best effort on the loop segment (though bumped down considerably when a group of
five guys did a team effort yesterday). We could have gone quite a bit faster if we didn't have another 200km of ride in front of us.

It was so lovely, though, that we decided to do it again for enjoyment and photos.

I'd noticed a restaurant near the end of the loop, so we stopped in there for lunch.

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Stop for Lunch








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Well-Earned Ice Coffee







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Chicken-Nugget Lunch for Two

We stopped for almost an hour, which was way way too long, but it was certainly enjoyable.

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Takin' it Easy

it took a while to figure out whether it was real; it was

Now we had a short 25km and a couple of small climbs to get to the start of the big climb of the day...

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Lovely Rural Area







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At the Top

of one of the short climbs







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Old Tunnel







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Last Rest Before the Big Climb

The main climb of the day was the eastern approach to Kunimi Pass.
“Kunimi” (国見) in this case means “Kingdom View”, and indeed we were treated with sweeping views that a photo like this
does no justice:

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After almost an hour of slow, hot (but visually stunning) slog, we arrived at the top:

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Halfway Point: Kunimi Pass

8½ hours into the ride; only 150km remains until home

This was followed by more than 10 minutes of lovely descent, plummeting down the other side of the mountain.

Just before we were to rejoin civilization at a main road, we were suddenly stopped by an elderdly construction worker blocking
the road, saying that the road was closed and that we would have to go back. This was an extremely unappealing proposition for us, as it
would me that we would have to make an hour's climb back to the top, retracing our steps for hours in the opposite direction.

Bicycles and pedestrians can often get by road damage that cars can't, so I wanted to investigate the nature of the closure. The old man
was adamant, though, that “it had been decided” that no one should pass. I was persistent, and eventually could peek around a curve in the road
to see that the road was completely open; it was closed due to a worry that some unstable rocks might fall onto it.

I was willing to take the risk for the one second it would take to pass the area in question, and so told the guy that I was sorry that I'd be making
trouble for him, but that I would accept my own responsibility and proceed. He kept saying “but it's been decided!”, but he can't physically stop
me as he's not a police officer, so Gorm and I proceeded. Indeed we did not die during the one second it took to pass, and as we passed the guard
on the other side, I yelled out farther apologizes.

I feel bad for the guy, just doing his job, but he was given a ridiculous job.

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Back in Civilization

With renewed energy we proceeded toward the steep climb that leads to the “Machu Picchu” view. The initial climb to the village itself is a lovely 1.9km @ 9.2% through tea fields.

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Steep







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Steep Selfie







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photo by Gorm Kipperberg







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Me

photo by Gorm Kipperberg

I was quite the stylish sight.

Commemorative Saké for the Rugby World Cup in Japan

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“Rugby: Agony and Exhilaration!”

Japanese dry saké rice wine

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“A Song of Praise for Rugby”

the non-dry version

The Rugby World Cup will be held in Japan for the first time later this fall,
an event of much pride and excitement for the Japanese rugby enthusiast. One of the biggest such enthusiasts is a friend who as a side job
sometimes does play-by-play commentary for national television, but whose main job is as an alcoholic-beverage wholesaler here in Kyoto.

The two spheres of his life combine to create a pair of commemorative saké (Japanese rice wine) products. I and some friends
helped him with the English on the label.

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My Best Contribution

Besides helping to make the English natural, we had some other ideas on the label. The Japanese bit shown above (which translates as “this is alcohol”)
is required by law, but I suggested a more-helpful English version.

Final Construction, Japanese Style

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Construction-Site Entrance

a large hotel in Kyoto

The scene above is the entrance to a new large hotel nearing completion of construction. The workers putting the finishing touches on the interior have left their shoes at the entrance,
and are presumably walking in socks or slippers. This mimics what one does at a Japanese home.

When the hotel opens, people will walk in this public area with shoes like any other business, but
until the construction company turns it over to the owner, they treat it with great care, so that it's
turned over in pristine condition.

I doubt that this would ever happen in America. When I last lived in America, asking a visitor (such as the cable installer) to
take their shoes off inside the house would be met with the same face as if I had asked them to take their pants off.

GPS-Settings Info for Bryton Rider 450 Cycling-Computer Users

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Precision

(photo is unrelated to the text of this article)

I've been testing a new cycling computer, a Bryton Rider 450. I was shocked to find out some information
about its satellite-positioning features that isn't covered in the manual, so I'm sharing that info here.

As a bit of background, folks often use the “GPS” as a generic term for “satellite positioning system”,
but in reality, GPS is the specific satellite positioning system built and deployed (and offered as a gift to the world) by
the United States of America. It used to be the only one, but now there are several. Russia has its
unrelated GLONASS system, the European Union has its Galileo system. These all provide global coverage. Regional
systems include China's Beidou system (which will eventually be global), and India's IRNSS system.

In addition, Japan has a small four-satellite augmentation to the United States's GPS system called “QZSS” (みちびき in Japanese).

The Bryton Rider 450 is advertised to work with all of these except IRNSS. This in theory would allow my use
here in Japan to benefit from the three truly-global systems (GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo), and two regional systems (Beidou and QZSS),
so hopefully it would be more accurate than other units I've used.

(In years past, I've posted a few articles about GPS accuracy, including
here and
here.)

So it was with dismay that I opened up the configuration menu on the unit to find only these options available:

GPS + Beidou
GPS + Glonass
GPS + Gal + QZ

This seems... unimpressive and disappointing.

I wrote to the company asking about this, and was told what the options really mean:

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Menu Option
GPS
global
Galileo
global
QZSS
Japan
Beidou
Asia Pacific
GLONASS
global


GPS + Beidou ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
GPS + Glonass ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
GPS + Gal + QZ ✓ ✓ ✓

What the Menu Options Actually Mean

This means that the GPS, Galileo, and QZSS are always enabled, and that you can optionally
enable the global GLONASS or currently-regional Beidou systems.

What horrible menu labels, obfuscating what they really mean. There's plenty of space on the screen,
so there's no excuse for this stupidity.

In Japan, the company recommended “GPS + Beidou”. Wikipedia tells me that Baidou will eventually be more
accurate globally than GLONASS (or GPS or Galileo, for that matter), and it perhaps already has better coverage for the Asia-Pacific
region.

I'd like to do tests where I bring six units (two at each setting) on the same ride, to compare and contrast the results
in different situations, but I'm not about to spring for five more units just for that. Oh well.

(The lead photo, which I hope gives the feeling of “precision” to go along with this article, is from something I hope
to be able to write about later.)

Temple Overlooking a Frosty Kyoto

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Watching Over a Frozen Kyoto

temple at Shogunzuka, Kyoto Japan

Last night we a short but intense snow flurry that dropped about 2" of snow in 15 minutes, leaving the mountains this morning with
a nice frosting.

The building seen above is at Shogunzuka, covered in “Inside the “New” Temple Building at Shogunzuka Overlooking Kyoto” and, more widely, a bit earlier in “New Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka’s New Observation Deck”.

A bit farther north, hikers were enjoying the clearing on Mt. Daimonji:

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The clearing is where the fires are lit during the Daimonji Festival each August, as covered in
“Daimonji: Kyoto’s Least-Photogenic Festival”, and in
its photographic rebuttal “Daimonji Fire Festival Up Close and Personal: Yaron Silberberg’s Photos from Last Year”.

It's a simple hike to the clearing, though perhaps more challenging with slippery snow.

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Frosty

I tend to like this kind of frosty-cold-with-sharp-detail image, though my favorite is probably the photo seen exactly nine
years ago today in “Snowy
Mountains”. At first glance it's a boring
photo, but I find it to be interesting at full, sharp resolution.

Also in the same realm is “Bridge
Over Icy Water”, which then itself made a reappearance as a print in
“Dabbling in Some Fine-Art Printing for
My Office”.

Native Languages

One line through four generations:

My dad's mom's native language was Polish.
My dad's native language is German.
My native language is English.
My son's native language is Japanese.

All four of us were born in the United States of America.

父方の祖母の母語はポーランド語でした。父の母語はドイツ語です。僕の母語は英語。息子の母語は日本語。全て4人は米国の生まれ。

My four grandparents all had different native languages: one each with Polish, German, French, and English.

Three were born in the USA; only the native English speaker, my maternal grandmother, was not (she was born in Canada).

僕の祖父母、4人はそれぞれ違う母語があって：ポーランド語、ドイツ語、フランス語、英語。一人以外は米国の生まれ。母語が英語の母方の祖母だけは別の国の生まれ。

Wigglegram of a Tea House at the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Kyoto

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The previous post, “Another Visit to the Shugakuin Imperial Villa
in Northeastern Kyoto”, ended with the photo of an old tea house. To give a better sense of its common, simple architecture,
here's wigglegram of the room:

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Animatable Wigglegram (18 frames) — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスで左右にゆっくり動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。

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Another Visit to the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Northeastern Kyoto

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Photo Op

Shugakuin Imperial Villa (修学院離宮)

Kyoto, Japan

Last month, as Kyoto's fall foliage season was just ramping up, I made my second (or third?) visit to one of the Japanese Emperor's
estates in Kyoto, the Shugakuin Imperial Villa (修学院離宮).

The villa can be visited only by reservation, and the online reservation system is generally completely booked for the entire three months ahead that
it has available. However, it's substantially easier for foreigners (non-Japanese citizens) to make a reservation in person at the Imperial Household
Agency office in Kyoto; Kobe cycling friend Adrian took advantage of that, and kindly included me in his reservation.

I've posted about this place before, in
“My First Visit To Kyoto’s Shugakuin Imperial Villa”,
and its followups part one and part two
(and a bonus boat).

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Gathering

Visits are via tours that are tightly controlled, chaperoned by (plain-clothed) Imperial police officers.

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Narrow Path







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Old (Famous?) Art

The tour was conducted by a man who had just returned to this property after many decades away; he had given tours ~30 years ago when he was younger,
but had been transferred to Tokyo in between. He seemed to be quite knowledgeable and very witty, as he often held the group in rapt attention,
or had them laughing.

The tour visits many small buildings on the property, and he described their history and special features. I didn't pay too much attention,
as I was interested mostly in just taking pretty or interesting photos.

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I Love This

kind of construction

One never wants raw wood touching the ground, as that invites pests and rot. The design of the stone base allows for the wooden pillar to be
replaced if needed, but holds it tight in all dimensions. I just love this.

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Tree-lined Path

the line of green trees below center line a path; the green seems to glow







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Tour







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Another Building







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Between Buildings







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Leading the Way







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View of Northern Kyoto







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Imperial Pond







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Bridge








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Photographing the Bridge

from a smaller bridge
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Bridge

from another angle







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Golden Bird With Flower

atop the bridge
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Another Tea House

damaged by a recent supertyphoon









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Inside the House
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To be continued...

Abstract Art from the Archive

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Earthy
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Spacey

Osaka Airterminal Hotel (大阪国際空港ホテル)

(a different view of this photo)







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Otherworldly

ice crystals on a window at -10F (-23C)

I'm on a visit to my folks in Ohio, and while digging through my photo archives for some pictures for them, I came across a bunch
of “abstract art” photos I took on a different trip here five years ago, so this post is a sampling of those.

The somewhat fuzzy ice crystals above were from the same frigid day that produced
“Pretty Frost Pattern on a Window” and
its followup.

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Pointy End







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Drill

This drill was fruitful fodder for my favorite macro lens,
the Voigtländer 125mm/f2.5.

The end of the drill bit appeared
here, but the chuck is my favorite, visually.

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For Good Measure

stacked wood strikes a cord
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