Colors of Japan [日本的颜色] The most sacred mountains of Japan

Last summer, I finally took my Bronica ETR on a journey along the Japanese inland sea, the Seto Inland Sea. This is the third and final video.
Mt. Koya and Mt. Hiei are considered two of the most sacred mountains in Japan. Both famous for their Buddhism culture and heritage, there are various temples and houses on the two mountains. This time, we revisited the two mountains.
Film Camera: Bronica ETR with the old 75 MC
Shot with: Red Komodo and A7Siii
Lens: Sigma DC 30 1.4/Canon 100 Macro
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[@AethryPixel]

I am just stunned. Your filmmaking is on par with what I'd expect of a channel with millions of subscribers or even a professional documentation production such as ARTE. Truly magnificent.

[@LehmannTheGTO]

Wooow
Another masterpiece of yours.
I love the scene, where you look into the evening Sun and your Girlfriend/Wife says:
,,The two uneducated can only say..."
and you finish the sentence into
"..its fckin beautiful." but the observation of you two, talking to each other, leave the impression of two very well educated, yet 'easy going' and almost philosophical bypassers.
Truly stunning.
At this point I'm wondering, if its the chinese history and culture, allowing you to be like this or if its just you 😉
Anyways.. it is a pleasure listening to that level of complex yet easy put, 'typical chinese' understanding of the interconnections of things, situations and beings.
Praise praise 😂
Please continue, sharing your way of thinking and your 'eye light' with us viewers.
Xièxiè ni again from a random guy, native German viewer and kinda soulmate 🙏🏻

[@GwenDen22]

hahah thats my girlfriend. thanks for leaving such thoughtful comment, it encourages me to make more! I do believe our way to acting was due to us been emersed into different cultures. My girlfriend and I both stayed a long time abroad in some really different culture. Such influence makes us appreciate life in many different way. I do believe you also would appreciate life in a different way, as i can tell from your quite thorough understanding of Chinese language. haha

[@LehmannTheGTO]

@@GwenDen22 I've made similar experiences while traveling in a smaller scale. Believe it or not: you actually inspired me to learn Mandarin trough attending online classes 😁👍🏻
I'm currently 33 yrs. of age, learning about Japanese culture, language, history, origin of Hiragana/Katakana and such since the age of 7 and my final work in school was about the origins of Manga hundreds of years ago.
I always wanted to travel through Japan. But in the recent years, my focus went from Japan to China.
It is really stunning to see what a country this size has achieved over the course of millennia.
Seeing you two 'wandering' through Japan, was funny in a certain way, because I thought immediately "Are they gonna bring peaches to Japan like in the old times?" xD
It was kinda god-like because - like I said - seeing 2 so well educated chinese people talking about the cultural differences, likes and dislikes, stories about the deceased sister buried on that mountain while laughing about slice-of-life comedy.. reminded me of the old legends about the chinese from the view of knowledge-hungry people from the Nara period.
All the modern writing, the books containing Kanji from chinese scholars, the dōkyō (like the yata no kagami), the also rather chinese looking kusanagi no tsurugu and the yasakani no magatama (made out of jadeite instead imperial jade).
All of this, is not even near the complexity of the Chinese history. But was evoked out of it/heavily influenced by it. So, in terms of advanced thought-systems, during that time, China was indeed of no comparison to Japan at all.
And somehow, your videos reflect that. There are scenes, where you talk to each other with logic but looking into your eyes, it seems that your bodies are.. like... Shut down
- I know how that sounds but "大王饶命! " (funny chinese animation series) xDD -
That is a rather difficult-to-master technique, similar to using tao.
I reached this state a few time's in my life coincidentally, by playing javanese "Gamelan" for hours with the top gamelan instrumentalists in the world - without realizing me doing it. I awoke from this state because the sun was going down and as soon as I was realizing, what I was doing, I immediately fell out of the mantra and couldn't enter the rythm again. Meanwhile, 12 hours had passed.
And you two, seem to enter and leave such states at will while staying conscious (without playing gamelan 🙀 how dare you 🤣).
I don't want to overdo it with my flattery but I'm seriously speechless because (from my view) in eastern cultures, it's seems to be nearly part of people's everyday life's so they don't see it as something special. But in the west, it's excluded from peoples everyday life's and that's why they see it differently. Maybe I'm just misinterpreting..
But you seem almost like you've naturally grown up with this.
But anyways.. thanks for unintentionally motivating me to start studying Mandarin 😆
PS: Thanks for reading this long text of mine. Now you can also joke together about that strange guy from Germany who went to far overboard praising you.
🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@GwenDen22]

lol i have already joked about this hahah
but, thanks for putting down so much time commenting. It will never be too many words when conversing different cultures and thoughts. It has been a great read, and I hope you can ger fluently in both CHinese and Japanese quickly so you can actually use your newly learned language to do the real fun thing, which is talking and immersing yourself into a completely different culture without and sort of translation!
great day~

[@OpaqueDragon4]

Beautifully shot and directed, I felt like I was watching a film. The commentary and the dialogue between you two throughout the video was also excellent :) thanks also for the english subtitles.

[@GwenDen22]

haha never thought id have foreign viewers. Thank you for encouraging me~

[@Algrin__]

wow, I loved this very much! But at times the captions go too fast and they can be hard to read when they blend with the white background 😓

[@GwenDen22]

i see~ will try to make some changes in the future. Just curious, would you prefer longer captions with slower switching time or vice versa?

[@LehmannTheGTO]

​@@GwenDen22 If I may, I'd like to answer as well..
You're speaking so fluently, that it is difficult for foreigners to catch up with the reading and processing of information at this pace.
So, you could either speak at a lower pace or give more time between sentences or captions.
That's my personal advice - as a German.

[@GwenDen22]

@@LehmannTheGTO next time i will try to pace the subtitle more clearly. I didnt really imagine to have any views originally, lol. I only uploaded because some one was pirating my videos.

[@LehmannTheGTO]

@@GwenDen22 Yeah. Different pace and
- also important - no white subtitles on white background pls.
Expected no views... 😆
That's the spirit!
No wonder it has touches of you 'spiriting away'
(you will maybe get that joke if you read my 'lil bit long and strange reply to the other answer you gave me xD).