Illustration from page 308 of <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Index:Home_Life_in_Tokyo_1910_by_Jukichi_Inouye.pdf" class="extiw" title="s:en:Index:Home Life in Tokyo 1910 by Jukichi Inouye.pdf">ANGLING-STOOLS.</a></i>. 
<br><b>Caption:</b> "ANGLING-STOOLS. Quote: Fishing has many votaries. Boats put off from Shinagawa for fishing in the Bay of Tokyo, especially in summer and autumn; the fish are caught either with nets or with rod and line. Anglers may be seen at all seasons on the banks of the little rivers and canals which traverse the city; but their catch is quite insignificant. The most interesting method of catching fish is, perhaps, cormorant-fishing in the Tamagawa, a river which runs a few miles west of Tokyo, where cormorants are, as in the River Nagara in Gifu Prefecture, which is celebrated for this form of fishing, employed to catch the plecoglossus altivelis, which abounds in the river. The bird has a tight ring around its crop, and when it has dived into the water and swallowed enough fish, the ring is pulled up and the bird is made to disgorge them. Another curious sight is the angling for the sillago. This fish is keen-sighted and very active, and takes fright and darts away as soon as it sees a boat rocking on the water. As, however, it is to be found in comparatively shallow water, a gigantic stool is set on a shoal, and the angler sits on it and patiently waits for the fish to take the bait. A boat remains not far off for emergencies, as when the angler, in his eagerness, loses his balance and goes bodily after the sillago. On a calm day, several of these stools are to be seen off the beach at Shinagawa."
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