Teacup-Shaped Puzzle Set for Learning Fish Kanji

This is a learning set built around the shape of a yunomi teacup, the kind used at sushi restaurants, designed to teach the kanji characters for eighteen different fish. It functions as a matching puzzle, using chopsticks to pick up fish and kanji pieces and slot them into the cup, but the set also doubles as a reversi-style board game and a chopstick practice tool. It exists for a category of kanji that's notoriously hard to tell apart, replacing rote memorization with something closer to play, where pieces have to be physically picked up and placed rather than just read. By housing the whole activity inside the form of a familiar teacup, it ties an abstract language problem to something concrete and recognizable from a restaurant table. What gives it presence is the contrast between study and play. It teaches a specific, narrow piece of vocabulary, but does so through a small object built more like a toy than a textbook.