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Siohigari - hunting for seashells on the Japanese word hunting sounds like something burning (gari). We all know that the Japanese admire the spring cherry large sea shells blossoms, called sakura is entertainment-gari, there comes a fall grape budogari large sea shells hunting, hunting for mushrooms kinokogari and admiration of red maple leaves Momiji-gari. And what the Japanese are busy in the summer? In addition to admiring fireflies hotarugari, large sea shells the Japanese collect shells at low tide, this event is fun for the whole family and is called siohigari (Shiohigari). Open season begins in late spring when the Japanese go to the coast and the mass begin to seek and dig out of the sand sea shells, and lasts all summer. The word means Shiohi low tide, low water, large sea shells and consists large sea shells of the words shio (sea current, tide, sea water) and hi - dry, dry. The main treasure - Shell ishida tami, which are found everywhere on the coast of Hokkaylo to Kyushu, and Makigai - spiral shells of clams and snails. There are Bakagai, large sea shells a sushi restaurant called them Aoyagi, even Hamaguri, Tsumeta-gai, Saruboh, Shiofuki and Kagamigai not populyarns, large sea shells they are difficult to get rid of the sand. But basically there are Filipino asari clams (Asari), in Latin, they are called Ruditapes Philippinarum. This cockle grows up to 7.5 cm and a maximum large sea shells width - 3.5 cm shell Asari is an elongated, oval, with radiating ribs. Color varies greatly, usually shells grayish, greenish, brownish or yellow, true colors may be distorted, dark gray staining caused by oxygen-free mud.
Gathering shells at low tide - old Japanese national entertainment, this topic is often present in the engravings of ukiyo-e. Now siohigari - kind of family entertainment, pleasure is a paid, costs from 420 to 1600 yen for adults and 210 to 800 for the child and recalls digging large sea shells our potatoes hoes. Tools for hunting can be purchased on-site or bring your own gear - the network (netto), rake (kumade), boots (nagakutsu), bucket (baketsu) and gloves (gunte). The Japanese have come to the beach, go out in the shallow water and substituting ass sun, digging rake the wet sand to dig clams for dinner. In designated areas shall ensure that collectors have taken with them (depending on location) from 1 to 4 kg of mussels per person, with time, you can dig for your heart's content. There are special competitions, for example, a shell of red give 100 common shells.
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