Check out this salmon pillow that’s shaped like a. . . salmon. (What else?)
The cool thing about this 70 cm long fish cushion is the fact that it comes packed in a tray and clear wrap, and that it is labeled just like the actual eating type fish we can find in any Japanese supermarket.
Price: 2,625 yen (Currently sold out.)
Via Plastic Bamboo
Fish shop owner will buy this salmon cushion as a lucky charm. Or just for displaying…
this is interesting:
“Ikura - Salmon Roe - 52.9Kcal
Nutrition: DHA, calcium, iron, vitamins A, B1, B2. Ikura is made of salmon eggs which have been preserved in salt. The word Ikura comes from the Russian word for caviar, Ikra, as the preparation of the salmon eggs is very similar to that of
sturgeon eggs used for caviar.”
(The world is full of loads of fascinating information.)
I think.
and that pillow would provide very cold comfort to the remaining Saru Valley Ainu..
“Kayano has especially painful memories of how Japan’s Hokkaido policies disrupted the traditional Ainu way of life. “Salmon were the main source of food for us,” Kayano explains. “We say shi-e-pe. Shi means true or real. E means eat. And pe means thing. So you might say salmon is our ‘real food.’
“Then shamu came and suddenly Ainu were forbidden to take salmon. Only Japanese were allowed to harvest salmon, even though we’d been doing it for centuries.”
http://www.charlest.whipple.net/kayano.html
and as a remora I’ve seen quite a few fish in my time but that shi-e-pe in the photo has to be the largest I can recall…(hmmm..i wonder if they have remora’s as well?)
rem.
on second thoughts, it looks more like a sturgeon..but I haven’t heard of sturgeon in Japanese waters (?)..there can’t be a Salmon that long and that deep in the beam.
*I’ll research this more.*
yours perplexed
remora
well blow me down there are Sturgeon in Japan.
“These were the kaluga, Huso dauricus; the Japanese (Sakhalin) sturgeon, Acipenser mikadoi (historically, this species has been considered conspecific with the American green sturgeon, A. medirostris)..”
*I wont bother with the link - it just exists*
yours (mucho depresso)
remora