Hiroshi Watanabe :: Flying Octopus, Akashi, Japan, 2006

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In Japan, octopuses are caught in the summer, and stretched and dried under the sun. When it is dried and hardened, the shape is retained and it looks like a kite. People shred it and bite into it for taste and flavor. It is a Japanese version of beef jerky in the US. Octopus in Japanese is ‘tako’ and the word also means “kite”. quoted from source.

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