Shirihoudai

Since I have complete control of this <evil laugh>bwahahahahahaha</evil laugh> of course I’m going to talk about my favorite hobby:  fishkeeping.   And I couldn’t think of any better way to tie in fishkeeping with Japan than to introduce Takashi Amano. 

This guy is a fishtank designing god!  More specifically, aquascaping - the practice of underwater landscaping using live plants.   Living works of art.  Someday I’ll have tanks that look like this:

Picture of a bed of glosstigma, rummynose tetras and discus courtesy of dude at myfishtank.net. He even got to see the real deal in person in Niigata! damn him!

Here is the official site of Takashi Amano’s HQ.

A couple of Amano’s books are in the Shirihoudai store that make great coffee table books.