My thoughts were focused on not losing a lure just as I snagged the bottom. “That’s a fish!” the boat captain shouted. Unsure, I gave some line so I could unhook myself and felt a head shake. A ...

Fish out of water don’t last long. But prints of their dazzling scales, pressed into pools of ink, can preserve the aquatic creatures’ forms for centuries. Since the mid-19th century, Japanese fishers ...