Stills

I can see this both as a snap by a very early traveller/photographer (the first Leica in Japan?), and also as fully modern and somewhat magical picture.

Both form and content. Definitely :-)
 

hmmm. I thought that this was a sea of sand, not water. My own context here in Southern CA. I can understand the tipsy image from my own experience, but guess I would try to level the horizon, but guessing you would start losing some of the Bufffalo in the foreground. Nice landscape vista, with the prespecive enhanced by the light gray and clouded mountains. I find this image interesting to look at and speculate; what all is going on?
 

The deep black of the horns nicely sets off the mist shrouded hills. My first thought wasn't 1920s Japan, but 1960s Vietnam, but perhaps I've been looking at too many books of war photography.
 

I saw it at first as sand with a wheeled caravan centre stage. The feeling that I am riding upon the buffalo is very strong taking me into the image. The buffalo and 'hut' make the image cocentrated on the right.

Although not for the purist it is possible to correct the right tilt (I'll refrain from incorrectly calling it a horizon) without losing any buffalo. Use the correct perspective tool within crop, bring the top down to the water level and align, use the centre tab to take the top of the crop back to the top of the image until the left corner is at the top of the image, double click. This effectively stretches the image progressively across the image in the vertical direction. I.e. it raises the hill on the right. It has very little effect upon the buffalo.
 

A wonderful feeling, Colin's word "magical" works for me. The horizon didn't bother me much, perhaps because of a mitigating effect from the poles and wires. And it does rather make it seem like the buffalo is being ridden.

Some really excellent form you have here. ;-)
 

This is a sea of water only knee high at its deepest. The wagons transport visitors from the main Iriomote island to Yubu island. They can carry up to twenty people at a time so it's hard work for the buffaloes. However, there are many in the stables so they only need to do a couple of journeys an hour. The lower horizon didn't seem to worry me too much as I hoped the telegraph wires would balance it out a little. Hoped that a subliminal curve would keep the viewer level.