Relying only on the moon to light his photographs, Katsuhito Nakazato captured scenes on Japan's coasts that strip them of almost all familiar earthliness and cast them anew as what they are: the results of volcanic activity on a rock in space. The images do not lack romance or beauty, and their combinations of colours, forms and shapes speak of Nakazato's aesthetic sense. In the afterword Osamu Ishiyama points to similarities with Japan's medieval dry landscape gardens and with ink paintings influenced by the Chinese Song dynasty, noting a tinge of animism and exceedingly orthodox techniques of creation that are rarely seen in photography.