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Imported Japanese Koi Ikarashi Toshinobu sansai Soragoi, 70cm female, from this fall’s ikeage and sold with her breeder certificate. She’s an even grey from shoulder to tail, and each scale is outlined by a clean, light fukurin that gives a tidy net down the back. The head is a soft, warm tone and clear of…

Imported Japanese Koi Kanno nisai Goshiki, 48cm male with his breeder certificate, from this fall’s ikeage. The Hi starts as a broad head plate that carries straight back into the shoulder, then breaks into steps: a big plate through mid-body, another along the right of the dorsal, and a last plate on the ozutsu. Between…

Imported Japanese Koi Marudo sansai Sanke, 63cm female, from this fall’s ikeage and sold with her breeder certificate. A broad head Hi stops cleanly above the nose and runs back into a big shoulder plate, with a sumi mark sitting on the right shoulder Hi. Behind the shoulder, sumi steps down the back on white,…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Doitsu Kohaku, 45cm male, sold with his breeder certificate. The head Hi is large and sits between the eyes, stopping short of the nose. A clean white gap at the shoulder separates it from one big body plate that runs back past the dorsal, and a last plate finishes before…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Doitsu Showa, 45cm male, comes with his breeder certificate. Sumi runs through the head with Hi on either side of it, then a broad Hi plate sits across the shoulder with black wrapping around it. Through the middle of the body there is more white, broken up by Showa-style sumi…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Doitsu Showa, 55cm female with her breeder certificate, from this fall’s ikeage. Sumi covers the head with a Hi patch on the left of the face, then opens to a bright white patch across the shoulder. Down the body the sumi runs in wide Showa bands that wrap the sides,…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Ginrin Koromo, 46cm female with her breeder certificate, from this fall’s ikeage. A large head Hi carries the heaviest koromo shading, then the pattern opens into separate plates: two staggered pairs down either side of the dorsal and a small odome plate on the left, with white ojime behind it….

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Ginrin Showa, 43cm female, picked from our fall ikeage selection and sold with her breeder certificate. Sumi caps the nose, then a round Hi plate sits on the head with black wrapping in along both sides. A heavy band of sumi crosses the shoulder, then the back opens into a…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Kohaku, 48cm female with her breeder certificate, from this fall’s ikeage. She has a separate head Hi between the eyes, clear of the nose, then white at the neck before a big round shoulder plate. A long white break follows, and the last step runs back along both sides of…

Imported Japanese Koi Marushin nisai Showa, 46cm female, picked from this fall’s ikeage and sold with her breeder certificate. The head carries sumi across the face and nose with a small Hi mark on top, and more sumi wraps down the left shoulder. A Hi plate sits on the right side at mid-body, with Showa-zumi…

Imported Japanese Koi Otsuka nisai Kujaku, 40cm female, with her breeder certificate, picked from our fall ikeage. The head is mostly white. A broad Hi plate covers the shoulder, then red steps down the back with a last mark near the tail. The platinum ground carries a dark, even net of matsuba between the red….

Imported Japanese Koi Saito nisai Ginrin Goshiki, 33cm female, comes with her breeder certificate. A broad Hi plate covers the head and runs back over the shoulder. Then a band of silver ginrin, a second large red plate across the back, another silver band, and a red step that finishes before the tail. The Hi…

Imported Japanese Koi Sakamaki nisai Ginrin Kohaku, 42cm male, sold with his breeder certificate. A round Hi spot sits on the head, clear of the eyes and nose. Behind it a broad shoulder plate wraps down the side, then a run of smaller broken plates follows the back, with a last small mark ahead of…

Imported Japanese Koi Sakamaki nisai Ki Kujaku, 53cm female from this fall’s ikeage. The head is white, and the color starts at the shoulder with a big gold-orange plate. A second plate sits on the left at mid-body, and a third runs either side of the dorsal back toward the tail. Matsuba reticulation covers the…

Imported Japanese Koi Sakamaki nisai Tancho Kin Showa, 44cm female. A squared orange tancho covers the head between the eyes, and that is the only red on the fish. Behind it the sumi starts as a scale-by-scale net over the shoulder, then gathers into darker bands down both sides of the back toward the tail,…

Imported Japanese Koi Sakamaki nisai Tancho Kohaku, 43cm female, from the fall harvest selection. The tancho is a bold, squared-off red between the eyes, closer to a kakutan than a round spot, and there is no other red on the fish. The Hi is bright and even with a clean edge all the way around….

Imported Japanese Koi Yamaju nisai Ginrin Ochiba, 40cm female, comes with her breeder certificate. A round gold-orange mark sits on the head. Behind it the body is silver-grey with orange-brown plates scattered along the back to the tail. The ginrin is strong and covers the whole body, giving the colors a warm, glittering finish. Ochiba…

Imported Japanese Koi Yamaju nisai Ginrin Yuki Asagi, 38cm female. The back is snowy white with a soft ginrin sheen along the scales, which is the Yuki Asagi look. Red shows on the lips, low along both flanks and at the base of the pectorals, with a thin red line up along the back toward…

Imported Japanese Koi Yamamatsu nisai Sanke, 50cm male, out of this fall’s ikeage. A broad head Hi covers the top of the head and flows straight back into the right shoulder plate. Sumi starts at the shoulder, some over the Hi and some on white, then the pattern alternates Hi and sumi down the back,…

Imported Japanese Koi Yamamatsu nisai Sanke, 51cm female, out of this fall’s ikeage and sold with her breeder certificate. A round head Hi sits on top of the head with clean white around it, and the shoulder stays white behind it. Sumi comes in as separate plates on white, starting on the left shoulder and…