Shima Province
Shima ( Japanese 志摩 国 , Shima no kuni ) or Shishū ( 志 州 ) was one of the historic provinces of Japan on a peninsula in the southeastern part of modern Mie Prefecture . She belonged to the Tōkaidō . Shima bordered the province of Ise and was the smallest of all the provinces.
Shima was a flourishing fishing region. In the Nara period , the governors of Shima were responsible for annual gifts of fish to the emperor. The old capital ( kokufu ) was probably located in today's district Agochō -Kō (where Kō is a contraction of Kokufu) of the city of Shima .
The province was often ruled by the daimyo of the greater Ise during the Sengoku period .
Known in Japan are the local Ama-San ( Japanese for women of the sea), who have been undertaking risky dives without an oxygen cylinder for over 2000 years and are revered for it, but also remain misunderstood. In 2016, the Portuguese director Cláudia Varejão portrayed three Ama-San women and their everyday lives in her documentary Ama-San , thus introducing this tradition in Europe as well.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Ama-San in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on October 13, 2019
Coordinates: 34 ° 23 ' N , 136 ° 50' E