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Shirasaki, Wakayama-ken, Japan(5 images)
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Shirasaki is famous for the limestone formation of a cape since the early period in Japan. The cape sticks out into the ocean. It is located on the Ki-i Peninsula in Wakayama-ken, Japan. There is a poem, a Waka, read at this site, making a farewell to the place as an anonymous poet promises to return on a big boat and ask the cape to remain beautiful. Since this Manyo period, Shirasaki has...
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  • Shirasaki, famous for the limestone formation, is particularly beautiful in early morning sunlight. The limestone shines in light gold and the sea water in the foreground is also bathed in low sunlight. Combined with many ripples reflecting the sunlight, the water looks blue with many white dots. These resulted in a beautiful water landscape. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • On the day the photographer arrived at Shirasaki, the sea looked quite rough with big tidal waves and many foams at places near the beach. An almost clear blue sky looks peaceful with slightly rose-colored low-lying clouds and a single bird in the sky on the west in an awesome marine landscape. The white cape of limestone rocks on the right at the end of the hill. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • The limestone rock formation at Shirasaki is seen close up from Manyo Koen (Manyo Park). Manyo is an ancient Japanese poetry collection. The Waka poem read at Shirasaki was included in this collection. The sky is almost cloudless except close to the horizon. The white-gray of the rocks, the blue sky and greenish water plus gray and brown small rocks in the foreground beach in this marine landscape. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • Sunset afterglow at Shirasaki is coloring the cloud-filled sky behind and above the limestone rocks to rosy colors at the cape of Shirasaki, creating a beautiful marine landscape at sunset. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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  • Viewed from a small beach below the cliff, the limestone in the white cape is whiter in the afternoon sun than right after sunrise. This marine landscape of Shirasaki was shot in the wintertime, January to be exact, dispite a summery look. Many clouds in the sky and darker rocks in the water in front of the beach is in contrast with the white of the limestone rocks. Waves, whichs are crushing in the foreground beach are making white splashes giving contrast to the navy blue water. By photographer Tomoko Yamamoto
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