in each locality. Until the war the nationally famous Tankichi hooks, 

 which, aa shown in Figure 7, have traces of a barb, were manufactured. 



(2) Artificial lures 



These have been widely used since ancient times, with excellent 

 results, and there are many varieties of them. 



(a) Horn lures 



These are composed of the "mag" /"body of the lure_7 and the "eba" 

 /"tail of the lure_7 (these are the terms used in the Kagoshima area) . 

 The body of the lure is made of cow horn, water-buffalo horn, deer horn, 

 goat horn, whale bone, spearfish spears, ivory, and so forth, and a 

 round-type barbless hook is inserted in it. Then to make the vrtiole thing 

 look like a squid the belly skin of a tetraodont or some feathers are 

 tied on. This tail is made long enough to fully cover the point of the 

 hook. TUth the whole lure from 3.36 to 3.6 inches longo the body of the 

 lure will be about 1.^4 inches long and about 0.6 inch in diameter, and 

 the tail will be from 1,8 to 2,16 inches long. It is thought to be 

 effective to inlay the body of the lore with various types of shell. 

 Abalone, ?rtiite pearl shell, black ner.rl shell, tataki shell, roppo shell, 

 shabo shell, tarashi shell, and Chrysocroa elegans are used for this 

 purpose. The effectiveness of horn lures varies depending on the type and 

 coloring. In general it appears that either red or black is best. It 

 is said that red ones are good in clear water irtiile black ones are good in 

 either clear or turbid water. 



The poles used with horn lures are male bamboos with a strong mid- 

 section and a flexible tip, the tip beings .2A inch in diameter, and the 

 line is about 4 feet long, • •.• 



(b) Feather lurea (bake, buppai , or sawakaeura) 



Thet J lis; iS have tin fitted to the base of the hook and the point 

 covered by mite feathers and irtiite or black fish-skino The overall 

 length is about 1,8 inches. The tin is about ,2U inch in diameter and 

 the hook is cast into It, Feathers and quills are tied to it; soraetiraee 

 brass ^ubing is used around the tin, and the lures are made in many 

 different shapes. 



With these lures poles v^ich have a strong mid-section and a flexible 

 tip are used. The same line is used as when fishing with bait. These 

 ■.urea are chiefly employed when the skipjack are biting well. They are 

 held in the water so that the upper end of the lure is one or two inches 

 under the surface and then the tip of the pole is agitated, HVhen a skip- 

 jack is hooked, it is scooped up in a dipnet^ 



(c) Jigs As haburi 7 (trolled feather lures) 



This type of Ix'.r.. l5 made tic resemble a squid. It consists of a 

 flat piece of leuu about 3 inches long and .^8 inch wide or a cylindrical 

 lead about 1.2 inches long by .3 inch in diameter to which six or seven 



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