4 posts tagged gyotaku

Tybee Island Marine Science Center Published by maryanne under Activities, Attractions, Beach Blog, Ecotourism, Green Travel Tybee Island Marine Science Center (MSC) is a wonderful discovery where science meets the sea!

Gyotaku (gyo=fish, taku=rubbing) was invented in the early 1800’s in Japan by the fishermen to record their catch. This was their livelihood (not sport fishing as we have today) and they could document the size and types of fish caught and still take it back to be sold or eaten.

So much for keeping up on our school activites on the blog…. Well, I didnt think the world wanted to hear that we’ve gotten to book 10 in Hooked on Phonics and she’s learned to skip count by 2’s without any intervention from me.  We’d been working on Masako Matsuno’s “A Pair of Red Clogs” for our

Yesterday Margaret and I got to meet Annie Sessler of East End Fish Prints. Annie does this amazing thing with fish, real fish, and it ends up looking like this: According to her website, fish printing--or gyotaku--was developed by Japanese fishermen as a way to record their catch in the days before photography.