Tottori Sand Dunes
Wind redraws the ripple patterns every night - a design remade daily, and photographed for a century.
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Wind redraws the ripple patterns every night - a design remade daily, and photographed for a century.
The shore of the Kojiki's white hare tale, its line of rocks standing in for the crocodiles' backs.
Granite cut by the sea into arches and stacks, in water clear enough to show the rock beneath.
A lake whose bed produces hot water, with a torii standing in the shallows.
Pears trained flat overhead, so each orchard becomes a green ceiling with shade beneath.
Hills washed away to extract iron sand left stepped terrain - proof that ironmaking reshaped the land itself.
The path to the cliff hall is climbed by chain and tree root - the visit itself designed as an ordeal.
Columnar rock standing like a folding screen, with Buddhas cut into the face.
Farmland below Mt Daisen, where the placement of windbreak woods and terraces follows terrain and weather.
Belts of black pine planted to stop the sand moving - human lines now defining the dunes' own edges.