[Baien Gyohin Zusho] (15) Konoshiro / Kohada / Satsuha

鱅 (Konoshiro)

According to the "Bencao Gangmu": 鱅 (Konoshiro)
According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": |鱃 (Shu) fish
|Sol fish (Konoshiro) - details unknown

In Japan, in the past, this fish was called 'Otsunashi'. Long ago, a man's child was slandered by a stepmother, and the father, believing the slander, ordered his servant to kill the child. The servant, pitying the innocent child, burned a 'tsunashi' (fish) and told the father he had killed and burned the child, then saved the child and sent him away. Since then, the name of this fish has been called 'Konoshiro' (child-substitute), because it was burned in place of the child.

* The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a geographical record centered on Luoyang, believed to have been compiled after the Former Han dynasty. * "Slander" means to speak ill of someone or to be malicious.

In the "Nihon Shoki", during the time of Empress Saimei, there was an official called the 'Sashigyo' (鯯魚). It is read as 'Konoshiro'.
According to the "Bencao Gangmu":
The sea |鱅 (Konoshiro) fish, its smell is like a corpse, and sea people eat it.
Now, according to the opinion of Mr. Kaibara, there is no difference in the smell when it is burned, even if it is like a corpse.

According to the "Min Shu": 鰶 (Konoshiro)
In the "Wamyō Ruijushō", |鯯 (Konoshika) and |鱅 (Chichikafuri) are listed separately.

鯯 and 鱅 are two names for the same thing
The "Shisei Jien" says: ■ is Moro-ko [■ is fish+fa]
Shiro is also used; they are all the same thing.

* "尸" is read as 'katashiro', 'kabane', or 'shikabane'. It means a corpse.

鯯 (Kohada)

In the "Honchō Shokkan", in the notes under 鯯:
鯯: The small ones are called Kohada.

|江鰶魚 (Kohada): "Sanbutsu-shi"
The first-year fish of the 鰶 is called Kohada. The two-year-old fish is called Konoshiro.

江鰶魚 (Satsuha)

|■魚 (Satsuha): One type [■ is fish+cha]
江鰶魚: "Min Shu" - Satsuha

This is the Kohada. It is incorrect to say that small Konoshiro are called Kohada.

* 'Satsuha' is thought to refer to the Sappa (mamakari).

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Author's Note: 'Bai-en Gyohin Zusho' is a fish encyclopedia by the late Edo period naturalist, Mouri Bai-en. As the explanatory text is primarily in classical Chinese style, it contains many kanji that cannot be displayed on a computer, as well as kaeriten (reversion marks) and okurigana. For readability, characters that cannot be displayed on a computer are represented as □, and in the case of names, they are shown as [■ is 〇+〇] whenever possible.

Additionally, kaeriten and okurigana for the classical Chinese are written in katakana and Chinese numerals, while furigana and okurigana are written in hiragana.
For the literature cited in this work, please refer to this note. → [Bai-en Gyohin Zusho] Literature Summary

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