another one

When you talk of scenery, you think of something that has been seen and described by many people over long periods of time. Human eyes have, as it were, softened in with their gaze, human hands have fed it and tamed it…. In all the steep and rugged places that have ever been celebrated in paintings, songs, or poems, without a single exception, one can discover some human element, but this extreme northern coast of Honshu has steadfastly refused to transform itself into anything resembling scenery. It even spurns that speck of a human figure that can often be seen in landscapes and paintings…. This landscape does not lend itself to picture or song. There are just the rocks, and water.