Hida- Takayama
5/07/2009
Coy carp. Coy carp in the river running through Takayama. Ornamental fish are often a big feature in Japanese design, probably because water is a big feature in alot of their gardens and landscape architecture. I often noticed fairly small pots and earns outside houses and on the street decorated with small lilys weeds and fish inside them. Also i noticed fairly large fish in some unlikely situations obviously there purely for decoration. outside one shop there was a beautilful shallow marble trough under the shop front window, filled with Coy carp.
