
Acropora nobilis. Corals are colonies composed of many individuals. Individuals can grow large but the sperm and eggs produced by a single individual do not fertilize each other. In thie way the coral avoids inbreeding. Corals seem to have known the importance of this principle from long, long ago. That is why corals always spawn at the same time. トゲスギミドリイシ。サンゴはいくつもの個体の集合体だ。一個体だけでも大きな成長をとげるが、そのサンゴから放出された精子と卵子は受精しない。近親相姦を避けるためだ。サンゴたちは大昔からそのような知恵を持ち合わせている。サンゴの産卵がいつも一斉に始まるのはそのためである
NAKAMURA Ikuo 中村 征夫
- Collection of
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Series title
- 100 Underwater Views of the Japanese Archipelago
- Title
- Acropora nobilis. Corals are colonies composed of many individuals. Individuals can grow large but the sperm and eggs produced by a single individual do not fertilize each other. In thie way the coral avoids inbreeding. Corals seem to have known the importance of this principle from long, long ago. That is why corals always spawn at the same time.
- Original title
- トゲスギミドリイシ。サンゴはいくつもの個体の集合体だ。一個体だけでも大きな成長をとげるが、そのサンゴから放出された精子と卵子は受精しない。近親相姦を避けるためだ。サンゴたちは大昔からそのような知恵を持ち合わせている。サンゴの産卵がいつも一斉に始まるのはそのためである
- Artist Name
- NAKAMURA Ikuo
- Year
- 1997
- Material / Technique
- Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions
- 390x570mm
- Accession number
- 10106729
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum “Search the Collection”
- https://collection.topmuseum.jp/Publish/detailPage/38288/
Other items of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (40724)

Sanrizuka Ms. Miyano
KITAI Kazuo
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Houstonscapes #6
NARAHARA Ikko
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

At Corner of Nature Synurus pungens
TAMURA Sakae
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Untitled
YAMAZAKI Hiroshi
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Humanscape SUSUMU SUGIYAMA Skiing instructor: Near the summit of Mt.Yakebitai in the heart of Shiga Heights
NARAHARA Ikko
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

PRAGUE, Ten Whimsical Photographs
SUDEK, Josef
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Watermark wall #01
HAMADA Yuji
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

MISCELLANEOUS Woman speaking into NBC microphone
SMITH, W. Eugene
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

(Spinning)
Photographer unknown
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

America
NATORI Yonosuke
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

HITACHI Night traffic in street at corner of "Civil Air Transport" Office (Tokyo?)
SMITH, W. Eugene
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

The Spell of Steam—Japanese Locomotives Class 1440 (1444), Industrial Cement Railway, Funao Engine House
NISHIO Katsusaburo
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

New Counting Grains of Sand Tokyo
TSUCHIDA Hiromi
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Another World of Deities Mt. Norikura
NAITO Masatoshi
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Birds of River Tama Young of Japanese Fan-Tail Warbler Leaving Their Nest
TAMURA Sakae
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Lull in snow
FUKUMORI Hakuyo
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum