筌うえ

noun

cylindrical bamboo fish trap

Traditional Japanese fishing tool: a cylindrical basket made of bamboo, placed in rivers to catch fish. The word is not common in everyday conversation and is mostly encountered in historical or cultural contexts.

• 昔むかしの漁りょう師しは川かわに筌うえを仕し掛かけて魚さかなを捕とった。

  Fishermen long ago set bamboo fish traps in rivers to catch fish.

• この資し料りょう館かんには江え戸ど時じ代だいの筌うえが展てん示じされている。

  This museum displays bamboo fish traps from the Edo period.