Leave it to the Japanese to fetishize all things in the natural world, not the least of which are aquatic animals, through the fine art of collectible figurines. If keeping an aquarium is too much time, money or hassle, a whole range of aquarium figurines exist to commemorate a huge diversity of freshwater and marine animals.
Sure there’s figurines of just about every real or imagined creature or character imaginable, but this set of realistic reproductions of reef fish are on another level. While doing a cursory search of giant clams we happened upon this one exquisite example of anTridacna maxima实际上,这是一对锻铁蝴蝶鱼的基础。新万博苹果
The attention to detail in this and other figures is really bordering on obsessive because not only can you tell that the figure depicts a giant clam and a butterlfyfish, you can also easily identify each one to the species – not an easy feat considering how many similar-looking giant clams and butterflyfish in existence.
At first we thought this was perhaps a one-off sculpture but a little while of sleuthing led us to a whole treasure trove of different series of figurines, some of which were parts of sets that commemorated differentpublic aquariums in Japan. Another of the eye-catching examples is a impeccable napoleon wrasse in full adult coloration that is part of a set which “links up” with a manta ray and a whale shark also in the series.
这种水生生物雕刻的风格似乎在80年代和90年代爆炸,但是这些桌面作品通常是描绘鲸鱼或海豚的桌面作品,您肯定是以前见过的。但是,这种新型的微型海洋生物雕刻塑造了从日本蜘蛛蟹,寄居蟹,水果蝙蝠以及珊瑚礁生态系统社区的更多标志性成员。我们还发现了一些例子,显示了花园鳗鱼的标志性物种,毛ul虫,虎虾,老虎大虾等。
Of course we’re not shocked to see charismatic and well known reef life like clownfish and “Dories” being reproduced in this manner of figurine style, but wrought iron butterflyfish and napoleon wrasses are another level altogether. If these kind of aquarium figurines start being created in the likeness of conspicuous angelfish and femininus wrasses, we may have get some to keep our薄荷绑住娃娃company. [Fumuo,Kaiyodo]