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One of the fishing methods of women in inland areas of Thai, Cambodia and Laos in Southeast Asia is to put a basket over fishes on the ground of a stream or of a swamp. This basket is made of bamboo and is woven into a circular cone. At the top of the basket there is a hole, through which a man hand can be entered easily. When the basket is skillfully put over fish swimming in the water, the female fishers catch them quickly through this hole. This "Putting-over Basket" has variant shapes, ways of weaving and names in different localities, but the writer thinks that all of them have a common origin. This way of fishing is found in the western part of Japan. As even the shape of basket in both areas (Thai and Japan) is similar, the next question is that fishing with Putting-over Basket in Japan has something (in common) with the one in Southeast Asia. On the inside wall of the mausoleum in the period of the Han dynasty, in Shantung Province of China, there is engraved a few pictures of men fishing under the bridge. They seem to be using the Putting-over Basket. If it is a true fishing basket in question, it is one of material evidences of using it in China before the Christian era, and connects the fishing techniques of two areas, Japan and Southeast Asia. The writer should like to know whether up to date, fishing with such a Putting-over Basket is handed down in some part or other in China, not especially Shantung Province.
