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Exhibition "Art Aquarium"
At permanent exhibition Art Aquarium Museum
The exhibition "Art Aquarium", which has been featured on the Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog, is a popular event with a cumulative total of over 10 million visitors, celebrating its 14th year in 2020. The exhibition "Art Aquarium" opened in Nihonbashi on August 28, 2020 as "Art Aquarium Museum" in permanent exhibition, so I went with my wife lately.
Art space where more than 30,000 goldfish swim
Left: "Oiran Dochu" is a work that expresses the courtesan and courtesan of the Edo period.
Medium "Sekiteirium" is a work with a Japanese stone garden motif.
Right: Earth Aquarium Japonism, a work that symbolizes the Earth, a planet of water.
The above three works that I personally found particularly interesting.
The first goldfish came to Japan from China in the late Muromachi period. Initially, it was a luxury item, but in the middle of the Edo period, when samurai began to cultivate goldfish as a side job and mass production began, the price of goldfish fell and spread to the common people, and a goldfish boom arrived in Edo.
At that time, there was no glass aquarium, and it seemed that the mainstream style was to put it in a tub or pottery and see it from above. In fact, this "Uwami" is still the correct way to appreciate goldfish. How does tail fin appear to blossom in the flow of water?…The biggest highlight of the goldfish is the beauty of the shaking of tail fin. Does the Blanding design of "Art Aquarium" express this "beauty of tail fin's shaking"?
According to the public relations officer of the Art Aquarium Museum, the content of the production (3D holograms, food and beverage menus, exhibited kimonos, etc.) will be changed every five days according to the changing seasons. I would like to appreciate this collaboration between traditional Japanese culture and cutting-edge technology with my foreign friends.