(fun happy music)
- [Narrator] Many modern-day fisherman
have a big fish story.
But in Ancient Japan, the
tiniest fish was the big catch.
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(moves into dreamy music)
The art of tanago tsuri is
named after the tanago fish-
one of the smallest fish in the world.
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But these special fishing
rods are hard to come by.
That is where Toryo and Shuhei come in.
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The two brothers have been making
Edo Wazao fishing rods
for the last 15 years
in the hopes of carrying on the tradition.
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(moves into funky electronic dance music)
Each rod can take up to
half a year to finish.
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(speaking in foreign language)
(rustling)
(click)
(scraping)
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(scraping)
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(pleasant orchestral music)
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(sonic beep)
