Gyotaku

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

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What Wikipedia says

Gyotaku (魚拓; from gyo 'fish' + taku 'stone impression', fish print(ing)) is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s.

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Image: DigiPub / J.G. Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.