On the night of the 17th in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, a "cormorant fishing" manipulating cormorants with a traditional cormorant fishing, which is popular as a summer tradition, and a captain's experience event on a pleasure boat were held.
The "Miyoshi Ukai" held in the Basen River in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture is said to have started about 450 years ago and is popular as a summer tradition.
The experience-based event was held by the Miyoshi Municipal Library in order to spread the word about this "cormorant fishing" tradition, and 26 people, including families, gathered at the platform of the cormorant fishing boat on the Basen River.
Participants wrapped their waists around their bodies and boarded the boat, and under the guidance of a cormorant, they were manipulating a rope called a hand rope attached to two cormorants.
A boy in the third grade of elementary school who experienced the cormorant said, "It was fun. I found that the cormorant was powerful and powerful enough to splash water, and it was quick."
Miyoshi Kanemitsu, Deputy Director of the Miyoshi Municipal Library, said, "I think it's amazing that everyone is manipulating cormorants very well. I hope they will develop a feeling of valuing a long-lasting tradition." It was.