The unassuming British botanist worshipped as a Goddess in Japan
Madame Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker is known as the ‘Mother of the Sea’ and celebrated every year in Japan (Picture: University of Manchester)
Every year, in Uto, a small town in southern Japan, a festival is held in honour of a minor religious figure, known locally as the Mother of the Sea.
During the ceremony, Shinto priests gather around a cliffside monument to pay homage to a bespectacled, middle-aged woman credited with saving Japanese agriculture.
But the name carved upon the...
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