A Folkloric Study of the Fishing Activities by the Analysis of "the Fishery Diary"

• Project/Area Number: 09610314
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
• Research Institution: Aichi University of Education
• Principal Investigator: NOJI Tsuneari Aichi University of Education, Assist.Prof., 教育学部, 助教授 (60242898)
• Project Period (FY): 1997 – 1998
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000); Fiscal Year 1998: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000); Fiscal Year 1997: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
• Keywords: fishery / fishing activities / folkloric study / Shinojima / a Japanese anchovy / the practice of fishing ground

Research Abstract

By analyzing "the Fishery Diary" (1968-1991) which the fisherman recorded in Shinojima , Aichi prefecture, I studied the fishing activities and the practice of fishing ground. The fishing deals with a Japanese anchovy and a sand eel.In the fishery, he was doing fishery, to be of primary concern in a Japanese anchovy in May and in October1 to be of primary concern in a sand eel in March.He did fishery on the Mikawa Bay and the Ise Bay in March, he did fishery on the Atsumi Peninsula coast in May, and he did fishery on the Mikawa Bay, Ise Bayin , the Atsumi Peninsula coast in October.I made the actual state of the seasonal change of the fishing ground clear.I carried the "the Fishery Diary" (1978-1980) on the report book, and interpreted them from the view point of a folkioric study.