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Isolated figures descend the stairs in this twilit realm, hemmed in by a geometric cage of bars and pillars (Entrance to Subway, 1938).
Hemmed into a narrow coastal strip between the Rokko Mountains and the Inland Sea, this port city came into its own after American pressure forced Japan to open to foreign trade in 1868.
The exterior is rather unprepossessing — a sooty Baroque church, hemmed into an undigniﬁed position by the Elizabeth Bridge — but look inside and you can discern much earlier elements in the handsome interior.
The rugged southern peninsula is hemmed in by low-lying mountains — the Vindhya and Satpura to the north and the Western and Eastern Ghats running parallel to the coasts.
The eastern end of the beach is a beautiful cove, hemmed in by cliffs and ochre rocks.