Cormorant Fishing Gifu Japan 日本岐阜鸕鶿捕魚
The cormorant fishing in Gifu Japan has over 1,300 years of history. Only designated 8 families are allowed to conduct such tradition. Between mid May and mid October, fishing boats will sail out to the Nagara River. Each fishing master will hold 10 cormorants in one hand to catch sweet fish. It's a fascinating tradition to observe.
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Mt. Kinka
Gifu Castle / Inabayama Castle
Gifu Shoho-ji Temple Daibutsu (Great Buddha)
Mt. Kinka Ropeway
Gifu Park
Gifu City Tower 43 Observation Room
Gifu Media Cosmos
Kinkazan Observatory
Inaba Shrine
Museum of History, Gifu City
Japan Trip :Ukai watching traditional cormorant fishing, Kyoto, Japan
Japan Trip :Ukai watching traditional cormorant fishing, Kyoto, Japan
[097] Kyoto Ukai
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Cormorant Fishing (Ukai)
The Hozu River in Arashiyama is one of about a dozen rivers in Japan where ukai, a traditional fishing methods using cormorants, is practiced. Tourists can observe the action from paid sightseeing boat cruises or from ashore. Cruises depart from the boat pier near the Togetsukyo Bridge.
Schedule & cost:
Daily at 19:00 and 20:00 in July and August (except August 16)
Daily at 18:30 and 19:30 in the first half of September
Canceled if the river's water levels are high
Cost: 1700 yen for a 1-hour cruise
Japan Trip :Ukai watching traditional cormorant fishing, Kyoto, Japan
Japan Trip :Ukai watching traditional cormorant fishing, Kyoto, Japan
[097] kyoto ukai
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Cormorant Fishing (Ukai)
The Hozu River in Arashiyama is one of about a dozen rivers in Japan where ukai, a traditional fishing methods using cormorants, is practiced. Tourists can observe the action from paid sightseeing boat cruises or from ashore. Cruises depart from the boat pier near the Togetsukyo Bridge.
Schedule & cost:
Daily at 19:00 and 20:00 in July and August (except August 16)
Daily at 18:30 and 19:30 in the first half of September
Canceled if the river's water levels are high
Cost: 1700 yen for a 1-hour cruise
Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boat Builder in Japan
On January 15, 2019, Skidompha Library's Chats with Champions Program welcomed Douglas Brooks, an award-winning wooden boat builder and craftsman who spoke about “Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan.” He had recently spent a week at the Carpenter’s Boat Shop in Pemaquid working with this year’s apprentices on the art of wooden boat building. The presentation was held in the Library’s Porter Meeting Hall.
When people think about Japan, they usually have in their minds images of manga and anime, busy urban centers, and an economy based on innovations in electronics. Most people do not know that there is also a “second Japan” wherein lies a rich history of traditional arts and crafts, many of which are fast disappearing. Douglas Brooks has apprenticed with seven boatbuilders in Japan since 1996, building over a dozen types of traditional boats.
In his illustrated talk he shared his experiences with traditional craft drawn from 22 trips to Japan since 1990. Brooks’ research in Japan focuses on the techniques and design secrets of the craft. These techniques have been passed from master to apprentice with almost no written record. His most recent book, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding (Floating World Editions, 2015) is the first comprehensive survey of the craft, spanning his first five apprenticeships and including a chapter on Japan’s last traditional shipwright.
Brooks also talked about the nature of craft education in Japan; an ethic that is largely at odds with our notions of teaching in the West. The apprentice system produced craftspeople with incomparable skills, yet it required an intense devotion and seriousness from participants. Brooks has experienced first-hand what it is like to learn when the apprentice is forbidden from speaking. At the core of this process is the belief that one learns by observation and perseverance.
In 2018 Brooks apprenticed in Gifu, Japan, where he built a 42-foot cormorant fishing boat working alongside an 85-year-old boatbuilder. These boats are still used by a handful of fishermen who continue a thousand-year-old tradition of fishing with cormorants. In 2015 Brooks apprenticed with the last boatbuilder active in the region struck by the 2011 tsunami. There he documented the most common small wooden fishing boat of the Tohoku region an area that saw 90% of all boats destroyed in the disaster.
Japan’s last generation of traditional boatbuilders has almost disappeared. Brooks’ teachers were all in their seventies and eighties when he worked with them. He is the sole apprentice for six of his seven teachers. In a 2003 nationwide study sponsored by the Nippon Foundation, Brooks was listed as the sole foreigner capable of building wasen, or traditional Japanese boats. The average age of the 300 boatbuilders listed in the survey in 2003 was 69.
His first book, The Tub Boats of Sado Island; A Japanese Craftsman’s Methods, was honored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture for its contribution to maritime preservation.
Douglas Brooks is a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher who specializes in the construction of traditional wooden boats for museums and private clients. He worked in the Small Boat Shop at the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco from 1985-1990 and has since built boats at museums in Japan and across the United States. He teaches classes in boat building and has written regularly for magazines like WoodenBoat, Classic Boat (UK), and KAZI (Japan). Brooks attended the Williams Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime History, and he is a 1982 graduate of Trinity College (B.A. Philosophy) and a 2002 graduate of the Middlebury College Language School (Japanese). In 2014 he was awarded the American Craft Council’s Rare Craft Fellowship Award. He lives with his wife Catherine in Vergennes, Vermont.
Nagoya Adventure Trips
Nagoya Adventure Trips. Home proud Nagoya, birthplace of Toyota and pachinko, is a manufacturing powerhouse. Although Nagoya's GDP tops that of many small countries, this middle child has grown accustomed to life in the shadow of its bigger brothers, Tokyo and Kansai. Despite the shackles of industry, Nagoya has cosmopolitan aspects, including some fantastic museums, significant temples and great shopping. Parks and green spaces in the inner wards are prevalent and well maintained. In general, locals take pride in the homely character of this friendly city.
Nagoya Adventure Trips is located in the centre of the largest fertile plain in the region, between Tokyo and Kyoto/Osaka, on the Tokaido shinkansen line. It's the gateway for journeys north into Chubu's big mountain heart and a great base for day trips: factory visits, ceramic villages and cormorant fishing are on the radar.
Amazing Nagoya Adventure Trips!
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