It takes a certain kind of person to find artistic inspiration in a dead fish. But in a recent workshop on Japanese fish printing at Oak Island Recreation Center, more than 35 people did just that.

Gyotaku fish printing, a Japanese art form, has grown in popularity in Hawaii. “Mahi Mahi,” created by Brian Heustis of Maui Fish Printing. -- Maui Ocean Center photo “I’ll never forget the first time ...

Celebrate a trophy catch the way the Japanese fishermen did 200 years ago. A traditional Japanese art form that you can to do at home with an IKO "Gyotaku" fish print kit. Every year about this time I ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. In the mid-19th century, Japanese fishermen documented a catch by inking one side of the fish and stamping it onto rice ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Artist Dwight Hwang and research zoologist Kate Bemis discuss the Japanese art of Gyotaku fish printing and Dwight demonstrates how to make a fish ...

My thoughts were focused on not losing a lure just as I snagged the bottom. “That’s a fish!” the boat captain shouted. Unsure, I gave some line so I could unhook myself and felt a head shake. A ...

Blending the traditional Japanese art form gyotaku (fish printing) with the native marine species of La Jolla, a showcase of works by La Jolla resident Rocky Frost is on view at BFree Studio in The ...

Fish printing is a beautiful, ancient art form that has made its way to children’s museums, art classes and summer camps. Make terrific trophy prints with your young angler’s catch or, if they are ...

It took Nate Garrett four years to find his pogie person. A practitioner of the Japanese art of gyotaku, in which a fish acts as a printing plate, Garrett wanted to honor the important role pogies ...