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The Salt-Making Festival at Shiogama: a Research Note

In: Asian Review of World Histories
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Lothar von Falkenhausen Distinguished Professor, Chinese Archaeology and Art History, University of California Los Angeles, CA USA

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Abstract

This is a brief report on a yearly festival at a Shintō shrine in northern Japan, during which salt is produced by a traditional technique: sea water is filtered through layers of salt-saturated kelp in order to increase its salinity. The procedure, which lasts three days, is being kept alive as communal memory and for educational purposes. The successive steps are described as witnessed by the author in 2003.

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