Holly Platz, Park Ranger and Interpreter, along with Park volunteers, supervised a fun activity for children on Sunday, January 6: Japanese fish printing.  

Gyotaku, or Japanese Fish Printing (Gyo = fish and taku = rubbing), was a method used over 100 years ago by Japanese fishermen to record their catch. Fishermen would paint their catch with nontoxic ink and then make a print of it. For this activity, Holly and volunteers used painted plastic fish with block printing ink, then placed a sheet of rice paper on top of the fish and rubbed to transfer the ink.

Thanks to the Friends of GRSP/HCSNA for purchasing the supplies for this fun art program!

The event included not only the fish printing activity, but also loaning out fishing poles, so that participants could go both printing and angling.  Some fishing pictures from the day, along with other fishing photos, are available here.