Decoration at a restaurant but I thought I'd post it for the opportunity to say that catfish (namazu/鯰) have a special place in the Japanese mind because according to a myth, it's a giant catfish that causes earthquakes in Japan. So it won't shake -and shake the islands with it- the deity Takemikazushi (建御雷神) enshrined at the Kashima Jingu (鹿島神宮) shrine in Ibaraki has pinned it down with a stone; martial artists know well the deity and the shrine which is a martial arts' mecca.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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