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Then it was the wife who received the fish from the boat.
She rolled up her trousers and got into the water to take yokoda .
One yokoda can contain 10 to 15 kg of fish. Usually, there were five yokoda on a boat. Since freshwater fish tended to spoil rapidly, the fish caught were sometimes brought to the shore in the middle of fishing. Yokoda was strong and light. It must have been a very useful tool to carry fish. |