WASHOKu - moroko minnows or fry

http://washokufood.blogspot.jp/2008/09/seafood-spring-fish.html

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moroko fish, 諸子 (もろこ) - minnows or fry - Karpfenarten
This refers to a group of small fish or individual fish types which live in rivers and lakes. They are scooped with a net and grilled or prepared in vinegar.
moroko uo 諸子魚（もろこうお） Gnathopogon elongatus
hatsu moroko 初諸子 first Moroko
tamoroko, ta moroko 田諸子 (type of carp, about 10 cm long)
yanagi moroko 柳もろこ（やなぎもろこ)
moroko hae 諸子鮠（もろこはえ）
hon moroko 本もろこ（ほんもろこ）
Honmoroko (Gnathopogon caerulescens)
Honmoroko from Lake Biwa is eaten in Kyoto as a very expensive fish. Now farmers in Tottori are growing it in old rice paddies and sell it to Kyoto, since the one's living in Lake Biwako are overpowered by foreign fish types, like Bass.
moroko umani もろこ旨煮 sweet stew of moroko carp (from Shiga prefecture)
shishamo 柳葉魚 a Shishamo smelt (susam in the Ainu language)

Inahata Teiko lists the moroko (minnow) as a speciality for March.

Half of the minnows
within this sunlit shallow
are not really there.

James Hackett -- The Zen Haiku and other Zen Poems



湖やもろこ釣る日の薄曇り
ko ya moroko tsuru ni no usugumori

this lake - fishing
for minnows on a slightly
cloudy day

. 正岡子規　「寒山落木」Masaoka Shiki .


志賀山の花や流れて初もろこ
松瀬青々　「妻木」

二三尾のあちこちすなる諸子かな
日野草城　「青芝」

焼諸子ことに頭の香ばしき
長谷川櫂　「果実」

- reference source : kigosai -

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