[Baien Gyohin Zusho] (4) Dried Anchovy (Gomame) / Anchovy (Hishiko-iwashi) / Sea Robin (Houbou)
|Dried Anchovy (Gomame)
Commonly called |Tatsukuri. The small fry of the |sardine are called medatsukuri. They are also called shirasu.
Those that are dried without being |pickled in salt are called shirasuboshi. Slightly larger sardines are called tatsukuri. In the fifth month, when farmers are transplanting rice seedlings, this is most commonly used as a ritual food. Hence, it is called tatsukuri (field-making). It is, in fact, gomame.
In my estimation, the |hishiko (anchovy) is one or two types of sardine, and gomame is the dried white anchovy. Their shapes differ greatly. This warrants further investigation.
Shirasuboshi and chirimen-zako are not necessarily the small fry of the sardine. This warrants investigation.
* "Shiraboshi" means to dry something as is, without pickling it in salt. White-dried.
* "Kakangubeshi" means "should be investigated." "Kakangubeshi ka" is a question form of the same.
|Anchovy (Hishiko-iwashi)
Marine fish category
Common names: Hishiko, Katakuchi
"Wamyō Ruijushō" says: Anchovy.
Tao Yinju's "Bencao Zhu" says: The fish (character) is the modern anchovy.
"Sishang Ziyuan" says:
Anchovy
Hishiko, Iwashi
|Sea Robin (Houbou)
Drawn from life on the 17th day of the 11th intercalary month, Year of the Water Dragon
Marine fish category
"Ryōri Kōmoku":
|Sea Robin (Houbou), common name: (character)
|Sea Robin (Houbou), "Ningbo Fuzhi"
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Author's Note: "Bai-en Gyohin Zusho" is a fish encyclopedia by the late Edo period naturalist, Mōri Bai-en. Since the explanatory text is primarily in classical Chinese (Kanbun), it contains many characters that cannot be displayed on a computer, as well as Kanbun reading marks (kaeriten) and okurigana. For readability, characters that cannot be displayed on a computer are represented as □, and in the case of names, they are indicated in the format [■ is 〇+〇] whenever possible.
Additionally, Kanbun reading marks and okurigana 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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