For centuries, fishermen in Japan have been creating ink prints of fish and sea species in a practice known as Gyotaku (魚拓) or “fish rubbing” in English. Originally used to record catches or brag ...

WHEN Jack Schwartz, a retired elementary school principal from Shoreham, received a dead piranha as a gift last fall, he was actually pleased. Not many people could muster much enthusiasm for a ...

On his visit to Brielle, artist Som Park demonstrated Gyotaku, a Japanese art form to make traditional fish prints, on a black sea bass.

In the summer of 2018, Yusuke Miyazaki and Atsunobu Murase contacted hundreds of bait and tackle shops in Japan to ask them about their art collection. They were interested in gyotaku. These are ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. In the mid-19th century, Japanese fishermen documented a catch by inking one side of the fish and stamping it onto rice ...

Fish printing is a beautiful, ancient art form that has made its way to children’s museums, art classes and summer camps. Make terrific trophy prints with your young angler’s catch or, if they are ...

To mark what would have been Julia Child’s 104th birthday on August 15, curator Paula Johnson shares new information on two works of art in Julia’s kitchen. To keep up with all the latest Food History ...

Port Angeles siblings, from left, Parker Ahlgrim, 4, Mckenna Ahlgrim, 8, and Sierra Ahlgrim, 6, make fish prints at a booth set up by the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center during Saturday’s Forever ...