KITA-KYUSHU--Ryuhei Tanaka’s eyes lit up at the sight of a fancy colored carp swimming elegantly behind a show window on a street. Tanaka, who was around 10 years old at the time, soon made up ...
MIYOSHI, Tokushima Prefecture--Scores of brightly colored “koinobori” carp-shaped streamers can be seen “swimming” in the spring wind at the scenic Oboke valley along the Yoshinogawa ...
Swimming Carp (Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th Century) shows how the body of a fish has been divided into five equal lengths – one for the head, three for the main body and one for the tail.