In the summer of 2018, Yusuke Miyazaki and Atsunobu Murase contacted hundreds of bait and tackle shops in Japan to ask them about their art collection. They were interested in gyotaku. These are ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. In the mid-19th century, Japanese fishermen documented a catch by inking one side of the fish and stamping it onto rice ...

For centuries, fishermen in Japan have been creating ink prints of fish and sea species in a practice known as Gyotaku (魚拓) or “fish rubbing” in English. Originally used to record catches or brag ...

It took Nate Garrett four years to find his pogie person. A practitioner of the Japanese art of gyotaku, in which a fish acts as a printing plate, Garrett wanted to honor the important role pogies ...

Fish printing is a beautiful, ancient art form that has made its way to children’s museums, art classes and summer camps. Make terrific trophy prints with your young angler’s catch or, if they are ...

Celebrate a trophy catch the way the Japanese fishermen did 200 years ago. A traditional Japanese art form that you can to do at home with an IKO "Gyotaku" fish print kit. Every year about this time I ...

It takes a certain kind of person to find artistic inspiration in a dead fish. But in a recent workshop on Japanese fish printing at Oak Island Recreation Center, more than 35 people did just that.

MAIN STREET ON NANTUCKET IS A CELEBRATION OF THE SEASON, PUMPKINS PILED HIGH BY THE STOREFRONTS, FLOWERS ADORNING THE COBBLESTONE WAY. SHOP DOORS LEADING IN THE FRESH FALL AIR, THE OWNERS OF THE ...

Rachele Brown, education manager for Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, displays a fish print shirt she had just created during the seasonal Junior Oceanographer summer camp for youngsters. The ...