Aya Hayashi

Tributes

• Remembering Tomiko Iwasaki · 5y ago

  Granddaughter and fellow ama

  Obaachan taught me to blow the isobue before I could swim properly. She said the whistle is how the sea knows you are still thanking it. This summer I dove with her tub and her headscarf. I surfaced, whistled, and heard her answer in the wind.