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 Ishidaizao (rod for parrot fish), Kurodaizao (rod for black porgy