| Nanko Kadota is a resident of Muroto |
| City and the creator of the traditional |
| Japanese picture, slide show story |
| "Kujira no Gon"(A Whale Named Gon). In |
| 1993, she visited the fishing community |
| of Mitsu, in Moroto City, and it was |
| there that she met 'Gon-chan', the |
| nick-name given to a lost Risso's Dolphin |
| that wandered into the port, and kept a |
| chronicle of her encounter with this |
| "feisty female whale". |
last update:july 1, 1996/(C)Kochi Pref.