Edo Wazao

The Japanese predilection for eating fresh fish has always made fishing a popular public activity, with the result that the craft of designing and making fishing rods developed to a high level. Specifically, in the Tokyo area, which borders the Pacific Ocean and is traversed by many rivers, a wider variety of fishing rods have been manufactured than in other areas. It is no exaggeration to say that Edo Wazao (bamboo fishing rods), including Ishidai-zao (rod for parrot fish), Kurodai-zao (rod for black porgy