Just before it disappears beyond the distant silhouette of Izu Peninsula, the setting sun is shining radiantly and continues to illuminate the ash-blue evening sky with its bright golden color.
The calm surface of the sea is rippling finely and is sparkling like the white sands of a stone garden in the moonlight, faintly reflecting the gold hues of the transitory afterglow.
A number of ink-black shore reefs look like the rock arrangements of a dry landscape garden.
The small lighthouse has begun to light up to guide fishing boats back to the beach at the dusk.