The kinshachi (tiger-headed golden carps) were placed on one of the roofs of Nagoya Castle as shachihoko, talismans and a symbol of the lord's authority.
Download + build your own simple 2.5D papercraft Nagoya Castle kinshachi (by Bankaku):
https://web.archive.org/web/20120516140135/http://www.bankaku.co.jp/gallery/index.html
(download instructions: scroll all the way down on the archived version of Bankaku's webpage, to find the "ダウンロード（PDFファイル：2.35M）" download link on the bottom left)
(old link: http://www.bankaku.co.jp/gallery/index.html)
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