Manga Comics on Fishing in Japan
Manga, comics, is one of the most important cultural treasures Japan has. Since the modern first series comic books were published around 1900, there have been literally thousands of them written. Of course, there are a lot of manga contents relating to fishing. In this blog, I will introduce you to some of the famous […]
Fishing for River Prawn
East Asian river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense) is a popular target in Japan, among the expert fishermans. Despite the first impression of this 7 cm prawn, it makes a nice game on a thin and short whip telescopic rod. In this article, we will see how it is caught and what makes it interesting, first. Secondly, […]
Kendo Ishii; Kendo’s Rules of Fishing
Kendo Ishii was a writer, who wrote a lot of science books for children. During his career as a writer and an editor in the Meiji era, Taisho era and beginning of Showa era (between 1888 and 1944,) he had written a lot about fishing. Japanese fishing tends to be catch and eat style, but […]
Fishing and Bushido, in Kaga and Shonai
Have you heard the word Bushido? It stands for “the way of samurais,” literally, and it tells you about how samurais had to live their life as a soldier. Interestingly, in one era, fishing was highly valued as a training program as a samurai soldier. In other words, fishing was considered to be a very […]