Kudzu net (Katsura net) - Katsuraami

Japanese: 葛網(桂網) - かつらあみ

Also called kudzu yose nets, they were mainly used for fishing sea bream. They are thought to have developed around the end of the Muromachi period, mainly in Settsu, Kii, and the Seto Inland Sea. During the Edo period, they spread to Chikuzen, Nagato, Hizen, Higo, Satsuma, Owari, Edo Bay, and other areas, and their scale grew considerably. In addition to fishing nets, they also used a threatening rope called a furi-nawa (a long main rope with many yellowtail planks hanging from it), which was dragged around the seabed to drive sea bream from deep areas to shallow waters, and then a beach seine net was set up behind it (jikogi net), or the sea bream that floated up to the shallows were caught with a swivel net, or a bottom net was set up and the schools of fish were driven onto it. The fishing nets themselves varied depending on the region.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

葛寄せ網などともいい，主としてタイ漁に用いられた。摂津，紀伊，瀬戸内海を中心に室町時代末期ごろから発達したのではないかとみられている。江戸時代になると筑前，長門，肥前，肥後，薩摩，尾張，江戸湾などにも普及して，その規模もかなり大きくなっていった。これは漁網のほかに振縄と称する威嚇縄具(長大な幹縄にたくさんブリ板をつり下げたもの)を用い，それで海底を引き回してタイを深処より浅瀬に追い出し，その背後から地引網をかけ回すか(地漕（じこぎ）網)，浅処に浮き上がったタイを旋（まき）網で捕獲するか，あるいは敷網を入れておきその上に魚群を追い込んでとるか，地方によって漁網自体はさまざまであった。

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