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 



FIG - 5 ' 



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. 6 

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

 touch here, though briefly, on various systems carried out ar< 

 Hiroshima, for they are, after all, the most complete of any 1 



m The^mplest method among them is practiced in a village -called 

 Kaidaichi, a few miles east of the city of Hiroshnna. When the tn 

 is in, this bay is a quiet, placid piece of water; one sees not 

 unusual unless he looks deep below the surface and notices long 



