THE WATERMAN OF CHIBA

Chiba is a Japanese province located in the Kanto area in greater Tokyo, on the east coast of Honshu, the main island in Japan. It largely consists of the Boso Peninsula, which encloses the eastern side of Tokyo Bay with an extensive Pacific Ocean coastline. Being located so close to Tokyo, it’s really amazing how this place still keeps the old Japanese traditions alive with their architecture, agriculture, and the habits of daily life. A car ride around Chiba gives the impression that time has stopped still in Japan, a Japan that we can only imagine through the pictures from films or history books; the traditional rice fields, the old train stations, the local population that is basically made up of senior citizens manages to send us back to a nostalgic Japan, an amazing and fascinating place.

Born into this environment was Jun Adegawa, a Japanese waterman who learned from a young age how to interact with the ocean in so many different