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 ...

WHEN Jack Schwartz, a retired elementary school principal from Shoreham, received a dead piranha as a gift last fall, he was actually pleased. Not many people could muster much enthusiasm for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Som Park, an artist learned in the skill of traditional Japanese fish prints, visited the Jamaica party boat in between its weekend sea bass trips, demonstrating the art form known as Gyotaku to ...

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 ...