When Goldfish Lose Their Lunch: Kuniyoshi’s Kite Goldfish

Part of Kuniyoshi’s Goldfish · Episode 2

Goldfish gaze skywards outside a tiny restaurant in one of Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s playful Edo prints. A soaring fish turns an everyday situation into a visual joke drawn from a Japanese saying. What has the airborne visitor done, and why do the onlookers look so stunned? Explore wordplay, familiar foods and the imaginative world of Kuniyoshi’s anthropomorphic animals.