A bizarre occurrence yesterday at the grounds of the famous Kinkakuji temple, ("Temple of the Golden Pavilion") in the historic Japanese city of Kyoto has many locals and tourists buzzing about supernatural intervention in the country's former capital. At approximately 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, the face of American pop star Madonna appeared on the surface of Mirror Pond in front of the temple, confounding visitors and temple staff and causing ripples of curious laughter to travel through the crowd.
Interestingly, it was not a contemporary image of the singer--say, one of her engaged in some kind of Kaballah pose or even a still from her celebrated film Swept Away--that appeared amidst the picturesque trees and the gilded temple structure. It was from the cover of the singer's True Blue album during her '80s heydey, when the top ten singles seemed to fall like raindrops from the sky and before she went all Eurotrash.
"I'm so excited!" exclaimed visitor Yuka Yamazaki. "True Blue is my favorite Madonna album!"
Workers at the temple struggled to keep the stunned public in order.
"Please, folks, keep the line moving!" shouted one tour guide. "It's not like it's the Confessions on a Dance Floor album art where she's all spread eagle in a leotard!"
Kinkakuji press officer Ryuji Okajima said that a group of experts, including meteorologists, phycologists, and Madonna's publicist, have been called in to try to determine how this may have happened.
In the meantime, the temple is enjoying the surge of interest in the Golden Pavilion.
"We all knew Madonna was good at promoting herself," Okajima commented. "But who knew she'd be so good at promoting a golden buidling that houses relics of the Buddha!"
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