The Shimanto River
No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.
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No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.
Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.
Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.
Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.
A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.
A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.
The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.
Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.
Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.
In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.