November 30, 2005

Publication of Nissui Original Calendar for 2006

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (Naoya Kakizoe, President & CEO) has produced and published Nissui Original Calender for 2006 "Sakana no Tsuragamae (Portraits of Fish)".
"Gyofu (atlas of fish)" consists of exquisitely detailed, original color pictures drawn by Mr. Tohshiro Kumada of Kyodo Gyogyo Kaisha, Ltd. (the predecessor of our Company), who began drawing fish as part of his research on fishery resources in the early Showa Era (with the cooperation of painters Shigeru Arita and Kikue Tomita).
Images of colorful fish found in Japanese and surrounding waters are depicted elegantly in detail. More than a thousand images were produced in a period of twenty years or so, and were published under the title "Nihon Suisan Gyofu" on Nissui's fiftieth anniversary in 1961. The images were later used in many picture books of fish.
The 2006 calendar is Nissui's ninth calendar featuring gyofu, its precious asset.
The latest calendar features fish with distinctive faces carefully selected from gyofu, drawn with delicate brushstrokes. We hope you will enjoy the dynamic presentation of the unique faces of fish.