Utasebune boat

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Utasebune fishing

打瀬船 / うたせ船 / 打瀬（うたせ）船



This is a special kind of fishing boat with many sails.
It also uses a special kind of net for scratching the sea bottom, fishing for "red-legged shrimp" aka-ashi ebi .

. WASHOKU
kumaebi, kuma-ebi くまえび / 隈海老 / クマ海老
also called aka-ashi ebi 赤あし海老


Apart from shrimp and prawns, they catch scabbard fish, squillas and croaker.

This boat looks very impressive with its many white sails and is also called

shroi kifujin 白い貴婦人 / 海の貴婦人
White Lady of the Sea



But work on this beautful ship is very hard, sometimes operated only by a husband and wife team, who have to stand up and change the sails for many long hours.
The boat is often driven by a small motor and the sails are used to drag the heavy nets on the windward side of the boat.

Then hauling the seven pouched nets in the boat by hand is another bit of heavy physical labour. One has to be careful not to damage too much of the seaweeds, especially Zostera, on the seabed.
The catch in the Kumamoto area has dropped in recent years due to overfishing and sometimes the nets are quite empty.



Now they run some of these boats for tourists in Kumamoto from April to December.
Ashikita Kanko Utasebune Association.

The Yatsushiro sea of Kumamoto, with Ashikita town at its center, is famous for its Utasebune.
Yatsushirokai, Yatsushiro kai 八代海（やつしろかい）
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Notsuke hantoo 野付半島 Notsuke Peninsula
In this part of Hokkaido along the Shiretoko peninsula and Nemuro peninusla, similar kinds of sailing boats are used for fishing shrimp.


Some of these shrimp fishing sail boats are also used in the Inland Sea 瀬戸内海.


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Stamp from August 1991
Designer Miyai Masatsugu (Photographer)

source : yushu.or.jp


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海霧ごめに見え隠れする打瀬船
kaimu gome ni mie-kakure suru utasebune

in the fog of the sea
they are visible and then hidden ...
utasebune boats

Nagao Kazuko 長尾和子
http://www.haisi.com/saijiki/jili.htm


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