Kudzu net - Kazuraami

Japanese: 葛網 - かずらあみ
Kudzu net - Kazuraami

...Their lifestyle was characterized by the fact that they did not own any land on land, and the entire family lived on a boat called a iebune. They did not use pole and line fishing, but instead collected abalone mainly by diving or by using a spear from a boat, and by a very primitive group fishing method called kazuraami. Their center of distribution was Mukojima, Seto (now Oseto Town), and Nakato, Sakito Town, in Nishisonogi County, Nagasaki Prefecture, and from there they dispersed to Kashinoura on Fukue Island in the Goto Islands, Iki, and Tsushima.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "kudzu net" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その生活の特徴は,陸上に一片の土地も持たず,かつ家族全員が家船と呼ばれる船の上で生活していたことである。また漁法においては一本釣りをせず,潜水または船上からの鉾突きによる主としてアワビの採集と,集団によるきわめて原始的な追込漁業である葛網(かずらあみ)にあった。分布の中心は長崎県西彼杵(にしそのぎ)郡の瀬戸(現,大瀬戸町)向島,崎戸町中戸であり,そこから五島福江島の樫之浦,壱岐,対馬へ分散していった。…

※「葛網」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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