Origin of Creation: Takashi Amano Biography

by Takashi Amano, Sayuri Amano, Tomoko Schum (Translator)

The photo book includes not only Takashi Amano's representative photos of landscapes and aquascapes, but also his autobiography from childhood and the stories of his latest creation, the world’s largest Nature Aquarium in Oceanário de Lisboa, Portugal.
Moreover, you will see Amano’s "last photos" that he captured in Kagoshima city where he visited for his treatment. This book will take you to the Origin of Creation underlying Nature Aquarium and ecological photographs, which Takashi Amano had been representing.

Genres: Biography

280 pages, Hardcover

Published March 3, 2016

About the author

Takashi Amano (天野尚, born July 18, 1954) was a photographer, designer and aquarist. His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano.

Amano is the author of Nature Aquarium World (TFH Publications, 1994), a three-book series on aquascaping and freshwater aquarium plants and fish. He has also published the book "Aquarium Plant Paradise" (T.F.H. Publications, 1997).

A species of freshwater shrimp is named the “Amano shrimp” or "Yamato shrimp" (Caridina multidentata; previously Caridina japonica) after him. After discovering this species' ability to eat large quantities of algae, Amano asked a local distributor to special order several thousand of them. They have since become a staple in the freshwater planted aquarium hobby.

He has also developed a line of aquarium components that are known as ADA, and his “Nature Aquarium” article series appears monthly in both Practical Fishkeeping magazine in the UK, and Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine in the US.