Tenkara ... What?

[Mojo]

Isn't Tenkara just a modernized form of "dappling"?

Interesting that still so many feel Tenkara fishing is dapping, or fishing with a 12' Crappie pole, 14' bamboo pole and a string when they were kids.
Did these same kids cast these "poles" like a Tenkara rod, (which is pretty much like, if not identical to casting a fly rod) with only 14', 16', 18' or so of line and a fly on the end, or just chuck their worm and bobber out.
I'll go out on a limb and say no to casting, and yes to chucking.