Shino Hamasaki

OCS CHARACTER ARCHIVE / 1972 / ANORI, MIE

Ama diver — Anori, 1972

Reconstructed portrait of Shino Hamasaki, an ama diver in Anori, Mie, 1972

Shino Hamasaki is a fictional forty-year-old veteran ama diver created for the OCS Visual Archive. Her story is set in Anori on the Shima Peninsula in 1972. The archive follows her as a working woman: preparing in the ama hut, carrying kaginomi, uki-daru and sukari, travelling by working boat, diving, surfacing with the recovery breath called isobue, and warming herself by the fire after returning from the sea.

ARCHIVE IDENTITY

PERSONShino Hamasaki

TIME1972

PLACEAnori, Mie

WORKAma diver

Episodes

EP01The White Isogi SummerA working half-day from hut to sea →EP02After the SeaCold, wet workwear and the ama-hut fire →

Provenance

Shino is fictional. The setting, work practices, clothing and tools are reconstructed from period and cultural sources. The images and films are not genuine footage recorded in 1972.