Registered Areas

"A Culture of Water and Diet"

Traditional Methods of Fishing

  • Oisade (net) fishing

  • Yana (weir) fishing

  • Eri (trap) fishing

Traditional Regional Dishes (Shiga Dietary Cultural Assets)

  • Lake fish dishes

  • Prawns & beans

  • Funazushi

Fish species representative of Lake Biwa

  • Biwa trout

  • Koayu

  • Nigoro-buna

  • Three-lips

  • Willow gudgeon

  • Isaza goby

  • Urori

  • Lake prawn

Traditional ritual

  • Omi Kenketo Festival / Ritual of Cutting Funazushi with a Long Knife