K. Erica Dodge : Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish

K. Erica Dodge a tTED-Ed  (transcript)
Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish
Summary
I wonder that the art in the title means a fine art or a technique.
The word : Goytoku is an old word and people now don't use usually. Gyo means fish and Taku means impression, it’s explained in the story, so it means a trace by being put and printing to record the species and size of the fish you caught over 100 years ago when cameras and printing machines weren't invented yet.
There seem to be two different methods. One is putting a paper first on the fish and putting ink on it. Another is painting directly on the fish and then pressing a paper into the fish. It's not reducible and not magnifiable also.

I remembered to have my own hand printing. It’s created by in the direct method when I was a kid who painted on my hand with non-toxic red Sumi-e ink and put my hand on the paper. I can now know how small my hand was.

This must be the same great way. Non-toxic Sumi-e ink was used for Gyotaku and fish could be released after that also.

Words in this story
revere /verb/ worship, respect, honor
rub /verb/ scrub
magnify /verb/ make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.