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  2. Ama (diving) - Wikipedia

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    Japanese tradition holds that the practice of ama may be 2,000 years old. [2] Pearl divers in white uniforms, 1921. Records of female pearl divers, or ama, date back as early as AD 927 in Japan's Heian period. Early ama were known to dive for seafood and were honored with the task of retrieving abalone for shrines and imperial emperors.

  3. Utamaro's pictures of abalone divers - Wikipedia

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    Leftmost print of Awabi-tori, Utamaro, c. 1788–90. The Japanese ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamaro made a number of prints depicting ama diverswomen whose work is to dive for shellfish or pearls—catching haliotis abalone sea snails.

  4. ‘Sea women’ and sacred waterfalls: Exploring one of Japan’s ...

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    Ohno is an ama diver, or a “sea woman” as they are known in Japan. For centuries, these traditional fisherwomen have lived off the riches of the waters around the Ise-Shima region, collecting ...

  5. Short of female free divers, Japanese sea festival turns to ...

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    Bearing torches that lit up the night as they swam out into the ocean, Japan's storied "ama" prayed for an abundant catch in a ceremony held by these female free divers for decades. This year ...

  6. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife - Wikipedia

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    All designs in the publication are untitled; this design is generally known in Japanese as Tako to ama, translated variously into English. Richard Douglas Lane calls it Girl Diver and Octopi; [3] Matthi Forrer calls it Pearl Diver and Two Octopi [sic]; [4] and Danielle Talerico calls it Diver and Two Octopuses. [5]

  7. Pearl hunting - Wikipedia

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    An ama pearl diver in Japan. Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater. Pearl hunting was prevalent in the Persian Gulf region and Japan for thousands of years.

  8. Category:Japanese female divers - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese female divers" ... Kumiko Watanabe (diver) Y. Rikiko Yamanaka This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 06:33 (UTC) ...

  9. Haenyeo - Wikipedia

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    Soft Sounds from Another Planet – 2017 album by Japanese Breakfast which references Jeju-do and uses haenyeo as a metaphor, specifically the song "Diving Woman." [23] Episode 1 of South Korea: Earth's Hidden Wilderness, BBC 2018, includes a feature on haenyeo free-diving for conches, and interviews one said to be aged 94.