Pre-industrial emblem
20Heraldry, materia medica or first-fish law met the pufferfish before film.
Pufferfish culture is local: the same silhouette is a licence in one country and a logo in another.
Status bars are editorial -- they track how loudly this type spoke in English-language media and law, not a best-species score.
Status through time
Industrial take
54Canneries, ivory, longlines or shikar scaled the take.
Cinema and logo
35A film, book or NGO mark often outran the field paper.
Statute and listing
66ESA, CITES, IWC or national parks made the type a legal object.
Live-cam and tourism
28Streams, jeeps and auctions are the present tense of attention.
Portrayals
Police ordinance1888-
Meiji rules treated fugu as a civic hazard.
Restaurant death notices1940s-50s
Postwar poisonings that hardened the licence.
Nature cover2002
A genome paper made a puffer a lab celebrity.
Travel show1990s-
Dare-meal television that public-health offices dislike.
Aquarium tank2000s-
Figure-eight and Mbu puffers as hobby sculptures.
Import memo2010s
FDA and MAFF paper that keeps loin off the casual slab.
Rituals
Licence exams
Prefectural tests still include live preparation under watch.
Winter fugu menus
Shimonoseki and Osaka seasons treat the fish as a calendar, not a dare.
Lab TTX assays
Food-safety benches test loins the camera never shows.
Sayings
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