thousand-fathom

Updated: August 12, 2026

A passage in the Records speaks of a thousand-fathom rope of paper-mulberry which was used to draw the net in perch fishing. Spearing was also practised by fishermen, and in the rivers cormorants were used just as they are to-day.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era