The Tower of Fishing Boats. 



Model of fishing boats exhibited represents the principal fishing^ 

 boats of various kinds arranged as shown in the following table 

 according to their ages in regular order from the top. These 

 are intended to show varieties of Japanese fishing boats, and the 

 condition of their developments. 



P J First & Second. Use of Fishing Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade. 

 ! Grades. Boats. A. B. C. 



A. Wood Rafts, 



B. Bamboo 

 Rafts. 



C. Canoes. 



Canoes of Oki- 

 nawa. 

 Soriko Canoes 

 of Bonin Island. 

 D. A Boat of 

 Japanese Type. 



Kakko, Mozi- 

 ppu, Choro. 



Fxperimental & 

 Training. 



Trawlers. 



Whaling 

 Boats. 



Cod-fish Angl ing 

 Boat. ^ 



Bonito Angling 

 Boat. 



Transport 

 ships. 



Drifters. 



Trawler (Aichi 

 prefecture.) 

 Japanese 



Whaling Boat. 



Ivawasaki 

 ships. 



Bonito Angling 

 Boat (Miye 

 prefecture.) 



Transport 

 ships. 



Fuji-Maru. 



Aichi-Maru. 



Kinkazan- 

 Maru. 



Taiho-Mani. 



ShunyoMaiu. 

 Tango-Maru. 



Kumotaka- 

 Maru. 



Daiichi-Maru. 

 Rokko-Maru^ 



Hoko-Maru. 



Suisan-Mam.- 

 Yugyo-Maru. 



The status on the top grade together with that of Daikoku 

 (god of wealth) exhibited in the Agricultural building is worship- 

 ped in Japan as the god of productive industry. Of the exhibits 

 in the first grade, we may mention : — 



(A) The wood raft has been made after our imagination 

 since there is not extant any of the actual remains of such rafts^ 

 (B) but bamboo rafts are e.xtensively used in the south-western part 

 of Formosa at present ; they are some 20 feet in length, but 

 the large one measures lOO feet, (C) excavated boats (canoes) 

 (D) and boats of primitive type. 



(i) Excavated boats (canoes) of th^ Okinawa Prefecture 



These are sm.all fishing boats used in the neighbourhood of the 

 Okinawa Prefecture, the length of which ranges between lO to 



