CONTENT PREPARATION FOR BROADBAND SATELLITES WAKA OF THE NARA PERIOD AND MULTIMEDIA VIRTUAL LABORATORY

We choose a poem depicting the moon and a mountain scene at night, written by Yakamochi Otomo in the Man’yo-shu that is thought to represent Japan’s oldest diary. The particular Otomo’s poem was chosen because it allows easy identification of the “where”(location) and the “when”(time) described by the poem. This paper describes some interesting aspects of the moon’s orbit in the Nara Period and of time synchronization that were adventitiously revealed during the development of broadband content. It has possibility the calendar conversion method long used in Japan is wrong. 1. Objectives The face-to-face consultation between a doctor and a patient is an opportunity for the exchange of non-verbal information, with the doctor attempting to identify the patient’s problem based on observations of the patient’s behavior, and regard skeptically potentially superficial information provided by the patient. Before remote medicine for doctors and patients can be implemented, it is necessary to determine whether such elaborate communications can be established between a doctor and a remote patient through broadband technologies. We have used waka—short poems composed in the Nara Period—in the content for broadband satellites and exchanged them interactively, employing a MultiMedia Virtual Laboratory (MVL) multi-screen (view of 135 degrees, three screens, UNIVERS type). This paper describes some interesting aspects of the moon’s orbit in the Nara Period and of time synchronization that were adventitiously revealed during the development of broadband content.