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Episode Details: Tomonoura: Tradition and Community in a Historic Port
Tomonoura: Tradition and Community in a Historic Port
Series: Journeys in Japan
Season: Season 15
Episode Number: 9
Air Date:
Duration: 28 min
Tomonoura is a port town on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, in Hiroshima Prefecture. It occupies an important location because this is the point where the tides from each end of the Inland Sea meet. In the old days, ships had to wait here until the ebb tide, before continuing their journeys. For that reason it became known as "the port for awaiting the tide" and was even mentioned in the Manyoshu, a collection of Japanese poems collated some 1,200 years ago. Tom Miyagawa Coulton is a photographer who lives on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Tom explores the historic town of Tomonoura and discovers the town's centuries-old tradition of forging steel. He also meets the local people who have protected this town and kept their community ties with love and care.
Cast and Guests
Bill Sullivan
Self - Narrator (voice)