🌊🍙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.
Woodblock print of two men racing between waves to collect seaweed.
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Woodblock print of woman drying a seaweed sheet over a hibachi.
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Woodblock print of woman collecting seaweed in a basket.
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Woodblock print of seaweed being formed into sheets and dried.
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