Fish Peeping - Fish Peeping

Japanese: 魚のぞき - うおのぞき
Fish Peeping - Fish Peeping

...The first person to use the word aquarium was the British ornithologist Philip Gosse (1854). In Japan, Ueno Zoo opened a fish-watching device in 1882, six months after it opened, and this is considered to be the first aquarium. [Minoru Yajima]...

From the Aquarium

...A public facility for exhibiting and studying live aquatic animals. In recent years, many of these are called aquariums or aqua museums. There are currently over 100 aquariums in Japan alone, the most in a single country in the world, and there are probably over 500 aquariums in the world.
[History of the Aquarium]
Human curiosity has been directed towards many different animals, but there has also been a great desire to see life in water; there are records of fish being kept in containers filled with water from ancient Babylonian Sumer and from the Zhou dynasty in China, and many varieties of goldfish were developed during the Song dynasty to be kept in aquariums and ponds.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "fish peeking" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なおアクアリウムの語を初めて用いたのはイギリスの鳥類学者ゴスPhilip Gosseである(1854)。日本では82年上野動物園が開園の半年後に〈魚のぞき〉を設け,これが第1号とされている。【矢島 稔】。…

【水族館】より

…水生動物を生きたまま展示し,研究するための公共施設。なお近年は水族園,アクアミュージアム等と称するものが多い。現在日本だけでも水族館は100以上開設されていて,1国の保有館数としては世界で最も多く,世界中にはおそらく500館以上存在すると思われる。
[水族館の歴史]
 人の好奇心はいろいろな動物にむけられたが,水の中の生態を見たいという欲求も決して小さいものではなく,水を入れた容器の中で魚を飼育したという記録が古代バビロニアのシュメールや中国の周の時代にもあり,水槽や池で飼うキンギョは宋の時代に多くの品種がつくられた。…

※「魚のぞき」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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