{"id":3167,"date":"2020-12-06T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacenippon.org\/archives\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:44:25","slug":"nature-aquarium-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenippon.org\/archives\/2020\/12\/06\/nature-aquarium-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is an aquascape called the Nature Aquarium.
It is something that creates a natural landscape in an aquarium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A special tank for this nature aquarium is necessary.
The person who created the Nature Aquarium tank and this genre is Takashi Amano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He used to be a professional bicycle racing athlete, and after his retirement, he wondered if he could make nature aquarium out of the creatures living in puddles in the rice paddies he had seen as a child, or the water in the river, through repeated trial and error. Finally he made tank and his company and this genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr.Takashi Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As a photographer, he used the world’s largest 8\u00d720 film to photograph
the Amazon, Borneo, Sado Island, and the stone garden at Ryoanji.
It was so amazing that standing in front of the print,
I felt like my eyesight was improving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the scene during filming at 8\u00d720camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mr. Amano at the Niigata headquarters. This is also a large camera.
The focus is being checked by a loupe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the 2008 G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit,
Amano’s work was displayed at the gathering of world leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2008 Hokkaido Toyako Summit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Amano was also a collector of antique goldfish bowls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Amano in the middle of a photo shoot in the Amazon. Cool!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Amano sadly passed away in 2015, but his spirit is still carried
on by aquarium lovers around the world.
His work remains in his home and head office gallery in Niigata,
but the public can easily see his work at the Sumida Aquarium,
located underneath the Tokyo Sky Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7m stone set : Grasslands and Stonework \/ Takashi Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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4m driftwood : Composition of a virgin forest \/ Takashi Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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3m water lily : Water Lily Waterside \/ Takashi Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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180cm stone set : a tropical paradise\/ Takashi Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are four tanks in addition to a huge 7-meter long tank.
Currently, the original work has four tanks left.
One of them, after eight years, for maintenance reasons,
Yusuke Homma, who was always accompanying Mr. Amano
to the shoot, was since the original Amano’s original has been
tweaked to become a new work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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180cm Driftwood : Fountain of Paradise \/ Yusuke Honma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Archived tanks in 8K are very beautiful, but after all,
it’s best to see the real thing with the naked eye.
When you go to Tokyo Sky Tree, go to Sumida Aquarium!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is available in 8K on Vimeo, and in HD on Youtube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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