Genryu Aesthetics
The art of chasing wild trout in the headwaters of southern Japan — precision, solitude, and the quiet of moving water.
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The Scent of the Wind
This season, too, the close of Yamame fishing is near at last. Japanese stream fishing generally opens in March and ends in September.
Wanting, at least for the last of it, to walk alone, I set off up the mountain road while it was still d...
The First Fish I Caught Alone
The brain scientists say now that memory isn’t playback — that each time you recall a thing you build it again, closer to imagining than to remembering.
But that one moment is different. It’s no rebuilt imagining. Even now, it stays, clear...
See You Next Season
Early September. Through the dark before dawn, his Jimny climbs, rattling and jolting.
The logging road was a ruin. The body pitched in the gouged-out ruts; branches reached out and clawed at the windows. We were shaken about, I’d guess, t...
The Whisper of Paper
The whisper of paper — is it, after all, slowly drawing away?
Lately, here in Japan where I live, I’ve been hearing more and more that the print runs of publications keep falling. One trout-lure-fishing magazine, too, vanished just recentl...
The Aesthetics of Trout Lure Fishing
There is an aesthetics to trout lure fishing in Japan. I believe that — and I know more than a few anglers who embody it.
Trout lure fishing is not a harvest. It asks for restraint. And to me, restraint is asobi.
— But this asobi is not t...
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The art of chasing wild trout in the headwaters of southern Japan. Precision, solitude, and the quiet of moving water. Essays and photographs by Hiroto Matsumoto, who writes for Masu no Mori, Japan's leading trout magazine.
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