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The book is a work of shunga within the ukiyo-e genre. [1] The image depicts a woman, evidently an ama (a shell diver), enveloped in the limbs of two octopuses. The larger of the two mollusks performs cunnilingus on her, while the smaller one, his offspring, assists by fondling the woman's mouth and left nipple. In the text above the image the ...
[citation needed] In Japan, women were considered to be superior divers due to the distribution of their fat and their ability to hold their breath. [6] The garments of the ama have changed throughout time, from the original loincloth to the white sheer garbs and eventually to the modern diving wetsuit.
Utamaro II makes a mitate-e parody of abalone hunting in Enoshima, where the fishing was done not by women but men (also called ama, but spelt with the characters 海士, "sea-man"). The picture depicts nude female ama (海女, "sea-woman") divers hunting for abalone as luxuriously-dressed women watch from a boat. [26]
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 ...
Pages in category "Japanese female divers" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Matsuri Arai;
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality is a non-fiction book by Japanese psychologist and academic Sumiko Iwao. It was translated to English by Lynn E. Riggs was published in 1992 by Free Press. The book is about feminism in Japan and the role of Japanese woman in society after World War II.
There, she saw the women divers known as the haenyeo, who were carrying on the centuries-old tradition of harvesting seafood from the ocean floor. Haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island in ...
Ama Girls is a 1958 American short documentary film produced by Ben Sharpsteen.It was part of Disney's People & Places series. It won an Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Documentary Short Subject. [1]