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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.
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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] It is also known as Japan Harvests the Sea. It depicts the lives of ama divers, Japanese women who dive for pearls. [2]
Headquarters at Japan Sport Olympic Square in Tokyo. The Japan Swimming Federation (日本水泳連盟, Nihon Suiei Renmei, JASF), is the national federation for Aquatics in Japan. It oversees Japan's Swimming, Diving, Water Polo and Synchronized Swimming competitive programs. It was founded on October 31, 1924. [1]
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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 divers—women whose work is to dive for shellfish or pearls—catching haliotis abalone sea snails.
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (Japanese: 蛸と海女, Hepburn: Tako to Ama, "Octopus(es) and the Shell Diver"), also known as Girl Diver and Octopi, Diver and Two Octopi, etc., is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai.
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