Saturday, April 10, 2010

More Colourful Koi

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Japanese koi come in an astonishing number of breeds.

Here are a few of the major ones.....

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KOHAKU.... white with large red markings on top

TAISHO SANSHOKU..... similar to the Kohaku but with the addition of black.

SHOWA SANSHOKU.... black koi with red and white markings/

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CHAGOI..... meaqns tea colored... olive green, brown, bronze etc

SHIRO UTSURI... black with white markings

GOLD OGON..... single color, ranging from gold to yellow.

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AKA BEKKO.... red with small black markings

BEKKO.... White, with small black markings.

UTSURI MONO..... 2 colred in an almost checkerboard pattern. Several color combinations.

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4 comments:

  1. Beautiful... though there was a passing resemblance to Jaws in one of them. Actually a good time to post about Koi... almost time to get the koinobori out of storage... the years moving on quite quickly now!

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  2. Nice. I never knew there were so many different names for the breeds. Good work on this one. Interesting how there are the Taishi and Showa 3 colored varieties. I wonder why they are named for the emperors?

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  3. I think its the era name based on when the breed was created.

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  4. Those fishes are quite interesting and the best part about them. it is the they aren't carnivorous.

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