Many events have been canceling all over japan. In my district, among the rest, the old man chorus club, the annual Buddhist ceremony at the temple and my wife’s attending paper craft club have been canceled.
At such time my brother invited me to do fishing. He sometime goes fishing at Naruto fishing port. I and my wife went there with his family yesterday. We arrived at 11 am at the port. There were many fishermen on the break wall. The weather was very fine but the wind was rather strong yesterday. My brother said “Today’s fishing may be “Buddhist priest” ,Bouze in Japanese. Bouze means that we have no catch in fishing. There was nothing to worry about that. I caught the first mackerel 2 hours later. After that we caught many mackerels next to next till sun set.
That night we stayed the lodge and spend a barbecue time. The baked mackerels were very nice. We also enjoyed chatting about fishing.
One of topics was about that what is the origin of “Bouze”. Buddhist priest doesn’t eat fish and meat as they are vegetarians. That is, they don’t kill any fishes. No catching fish means no killing fishes. That’s why Bouse means no catch of fishing.
“ The priest of my family temple loves eating meat and fish. In addition he often goes fishing. More to say he plays the punch ball in his spare time. He is perfectly against Buddhist teaching.”