著者

中山 俊介 小堀 信幸

雑誌

保存科学 = Science for conservation

巻号頁・発行日

no.52, pp.275-287, 2013-03-26

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Outside the museum of local history and culture managed by the town and located next to the Iejima Port in Iejima, Okinawa prefecture is a small silver torpedo-shaped boat. It is known as a “tank boat.”A “tank boat”is defined as “a boat using the fuel tank of an aircraft to catch octopuses and other fish in a reef.”Traditionally in Okinawa, wooden boats called sabani were used in reefs and coastal regions for fishing. It was these “tank boats”that people of Okinawa engaged in fishing depended on temporarily after having lost many tools necessary for life as a result of damage caused by the Pacific War. An investigation of museums in Okinawa where such “tank boats”are preserved and exhibited revealed that there are several such museums. This is a report on the investigation in the form of interviews held in February 2011 at each of these museums concerning documents and the present condition of such “tank boats.”