Goshiki Koi Development
Goshiki five colored koi hachi head hachiware divided head line that divides also menware hada skin.
Goshiki koi development. It should be noted here that a lot of goshiki tend to darken at an alarming rate when they are put into our hard water here in the united states that not all bloodlines develop in the same fashion and there are over twenty koi breeders bearing. Koda is world renowned who has transformed the development gorgeous. However in all this the goshiki can be a very unstable fish when speaking of color development.
Hoshi star development of red ichimai sashi sashi where the blurring extends a single scale ichimatsu checkerboard pattern ikeage harvest inazuma lightning pattern. It never goes without mentioning the minuma goshiki when we talk about the goshiki and the ginrin goshiki varieties. If that happens you are left with quite an ugly fish.
It is not uncommon that many goshiki end up losing that hi plat all together. It is clear that goshiki have come a very long way in 15 20 years and with ever more breeders seemingly joining the goshiki bandwagon there is ever more scope to develop the variety in the coming years. Koi no minuma was founded as a distributor of nishikigoi.
The development of sumi in goshiki is a relentless progression sometimes quick and sometimes slow. Both have been very active at many koi shows recently. With many visits to japan we see koi at tosai we see the same koi at nisai and sansai and even up to 10 years old in some cases we have studied the development over the years and the traits of each breeder and we can have a better guess than most what our tosai and nisai will develop like for our customers and when we initially buy those.
The degree of thickening of the hi plate is a distinctive trait of the goshiki. The name goshiki literally means five colored referring to the white red light blue dark blue and black coloration of these koi. Interestingly in an interview in koishi kuniyasu hiroi who started breeding in 1958 states that his grandfather a goshiki breeder shared his vision for goshiki with him just prior to passing away.
The goshiki variety of koi is showcased using beautiful specimens from the koda koi farm. The goshiki variety of koi is being discussed by shawn as he explains the transformation of this beautiful variety and how the omosako koi farm has embraced.