CULTIVATION OF MARINE ANIMALS IN JAPAN 717 



lessees; (5) monopoly was acquired by the people of this region in 

 selling oysters in Osaka, thus insuring a large market. 



I made in 1894 a careful inspection of the oyster industry of 

 Hiroshima at the request of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 Japanese Government, and wrote a report on it (in Japanese). This 





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FIG. 5. Typical oyster-farm, FIG. 6. Diagram of well-developed 



Kaida Bay. oyster-farm. 



The black lines in Figs. 5 and 6 represent newly arranged bamboo collectors 

 the dotted lines the collectors of the second year. 



has been, in its main outline, together with some valuable additions 

 of his own, put into English by Professor Bashford Dean, of New 

 York (U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1902, pp. 17-37, pis. 3-7), 

 and the reader may be referred to it for details. I shall, however, 

 touch here, though briefly, on various systems carried out around 

 Hiroshima, for they are, after all, the most complete of any known 

 in Japan. 



The simplest method among them is practiced in a village called 

 Kaidaichi, a few miles east of the city of Hiroshima. When the tide 

 is in, this bay is a quiet, placid piece of water; one sees nothing 

 unusual unless he looks deep below the surface and notices long 



