In southern Japan women free-divers have been collecting the flora and fauna of the sea for 2,000 years. Traditionally they wore only loincloths in far-from-warm waters.
Traditions don’t get much more exciting than mostly-nude women in the water with pearls and sharks and whatnot. These divers are known as ama, or sea women.
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In the center are Prince and Princess Takamatsu who were returning from a world tour.
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Built: 1930 Yokohama Dock Co., Yokohama, Japan
Operator: Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK)
Speed: 19 kn
Passengers: 817
Built for Yokohama - San Francisco run.
In 1942 she became a transport ship for the Japanese Navy and was also used as a hospital ship.
On 04-28-1943, while on a voyage from Manila to Singapore she was torpedoed and sunk by the US submarine Gudgeon.
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Front View of Nagasaki City - postcard
postcard: The Harbor and Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki
Color lithograph; collotype; embossing; ink and metallic pigment on card stock
Japanese postcard - steamship Nagasaki Maru
World War II: 13 May, 1942 — The ocean liner struck a mine and sank in the Pacific Ocean off Nagasaki with the loss of 39 people. Her captain later committed hari-kiri.
Sailings November 1928-August 1929
Ports of call:
Vancouver, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila
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Ports of call:
Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, London, Antwerp.
The Tatsuta Maru (16,975 grt, 584 ft. long) commenced her maiden voyage between Yokohama and San Francisco in April 1930. The transliteration of her name was changed to Tatuta Maru in 1938.
She became a troop transport for the Japanese Navy in 1941, but ended her days two years later when sunk by a US submarine. Her sister-ship the Asama Maru was near-identical, whereas a half-sister, the Chichibu Maru, was slightly larger with only one funnel.
Click to view a postcard of the Tatsuta Maru and photos of the interiors of the Tatsuta Maru and Asama Maru
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In 1863, a ship (the Viking) with a crew of 460 Chinese laborers and 23 American sailors, bound for the United States from China, was shipwrecked on the island. Although at that time the Japanese populace had been ordered by the shogunate to kill or imprison any foreigners who entered Japan without authorization, Mikura’s inhabitants treated the shipwrecked crew with hospitality and kindness.
(Source: wikipedia)
(Source: fathermapple)
i am fairly certain that i have seen the unpainted version of this, and the girls are just wearing loincloths. can anyone confirm? oh, victorians…
Old Japanese swimsuits
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