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MOE Water/Soil/Ground Environment SATOUMI Net Interaction Between SATOUMI and Human Beings Photographs of the Seto Inland Sea Many Years Ago

Photographs of the Seto Inland Sea Many Years Ago

Tachibana (present-day Onomichi City): In Tachibana, Mukaishima, seaweed was used for multiple purposes, such as fertilizer, prevention of sediment runoff, and repair of slopes.

Children playing in an eelgrass field (Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture) and eelgrass harvesting

Seaweed piled up on the beach and coastal tide barrier forest

Shellfish digging in Nakatsu tidal flat (circa 1968), catch of Bakagai (March 3, 1963), and sun-dried seaweed Sanhyakkenhama beach (late 1955)

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