🌊🍙MOTHER OF THE SEA🍘✨

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (キャスリーンメアリードリューベイカー 1901-57) is not well known in her homeland, but in Japan she has become a national hero, remembered at Sumiyoshi-jinja in Uto (宇土 - Kumamoto Prefecture) as the savior of the seaweed industry.

#キャスリーンメアリードリューベイカ #ukiyoe #seaweed

The paper-making industry would inspire the creation of nori (海苔) in the 18thC.
Using similar techniques to paper production, seaweed was shredded, moulded and dried on racks, creating sheets of edible algae.
Nori would come to play an important role in Japanese cuisine🙌

#海苔 #nori #laver #seaweed

Until the early Edo period villagers had harvested naturally growing algae by hand (in the 8thC it is recorded that some fishermen paid their taxes to the emperor in kelp), but farming allowed for cheaper and more readily available seaweed (a valuable food source in winter).

#seaweed #wakame #nori

To provide fresh fish for shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康 1543-1616), bamboo pens were constructed in Edo Bay to hold live catches.
It was discovered that seaweed thrived on the bamboo fences, and soon fishing communities were actively farming the algae on sunken wooden frames.

#seaweed#Edo #江戸 #徳川家康

It is no exaggeration to say that Drew-Baker inadvertently saved Japan's entire seaweed industry.

Marine biologist Segawa Sōkichi (瀬川宗吉) read about her detailed findings in 'Nature' magazine in 1949 and was finally able to piece together how to revitalise seaweed production.

#瀬川宗吉 #seaweed#Japan

On April 14th Japan's nori farmers travel to pay their respects to Drew-Baker's memorial overlooking the Ariake Sea, a huge bay filled with seaweed farms.

Drew-Baker's research into the mysterious life cycle of 'porphyra' solved the problem of how to artificially seed seaweed🙌

#のり #seaweed #海苔

🌊🍙MOTHER OF THE SEA🍘✨

Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (キャスリーンメアリードリューベイカー 1901-57) is not well known in her homeland, but in Japan she has become a national hero, remembered at Sumiyoshi-jinja in Uto (宇土 - Kumamoto Prefecture) as the savior of the seaweed industry.

#キャスリーンメアリードリューベイカ #ukiyoe #seaweed

Delicate and magical, these Czech glass drop earrings have the colours of shallow turquoise oceans and kelp-brown forests swirled inside them. They are crowned with silver plated pewter bead caps, adorned with wreaths of sea-tangle; they hang from hand-forged ear wires in sterling silver in my "little cobra" shape.

https://feralstrumpet.com/products/kelpie-drops-mermaid-earrings-in-seaweed-greens

#Handmade#Earrings#Kelp#Seaweed

Delicate and magical, these Czech glass drop earrings have the colours of shallow turquoise oceans and kelp-brown forests swirled inside them. They are crowned with silver plated pewter bead caps, adorned with wreaths of sea-tangle; they hang from hand-forged ear wires in sterling silver in my "little cobra" shape.

https://feralstrumpet.com/products/kelpie-drops-mermaid-earrings-in-seaweed-greens

#Handmade#Earrings#Kelp#Seaweed