Looking at photographs of Riusuke Fukahori's art, it's easy to assume that they are pictures of real goldfish. But the fish in Fukahori's water-filled wooden drums aren't real, nor are they plastic models. In fact, the realistic nature of Fukahori's tiny, life-like aqauriums can be attributed to a technique that took the artist years to perfect, which he calls 2.5-dimensional painting.
This involves taking a receptacle like a wooden masu cup, filling it with resin and painting fish in such a way that they appear to float within the cup. As goldfish are symbolic of summer in Japan, this exhibiton at Nihonashi Mitsukoshi couldn't have come at a better time, where you can awe at 40 of Fukahori's mesmerising sculptures.