PLEASE NOTE WE WILL CLOSE AT 3PM TODAY ( Thursday 28th August ). OPEN AS USUSAL SATURDAY AND FRIDAY, PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE IF US IN THE SHOP, SO ONLY KOI IN THE SHOP WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION OR VIEWING. SALE SALE SALE NOW 1/3 OF ALL KOI EXCEPT THOSE IN JAPAN 2025. FOR ONLINE KOI SALES THE CODE IS DGU2SJE2. All koi are now out of quarantine, and koi in the Annex and Forge can also be seen, We are reducing live stock levels, as we need to take the pressure of Sue and myself. .
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                      As usual a 20 hour trip , of planes , trains and automobiles , finds us in our hotel for the next week or so . I arrived in Nagaoka around 12 , and dumped off my bags , and headed up to the mountains .

Our first stop today , would take us to Kaneko koi farm . Breeder of many varieties , including shiro utsuri , kujaku and many others , but of late  , the master of the tancho kujaku !

It was perfect timing  as he had just harvested some nisia , many varieties , i soon had some nice koi in the bowl , including doitsu beni hajiro , doitsu ochiba , a very nice beni kikokoryu , tancho kujaku . In the higher quality pond ,there was a very nice three step doitsu ochiba which i could not leave behind .

Doitsu ochiba , nisai , 40-45cm and thought to be female .

 

Doitstsu ochiba 35-40cm and nisai 

 

Very nice beni kikokoryu

 

Tancho kujaku

 

Doitsu beni hajiro 

 

Next stop was an old favourite of ours , Yagenji koi farm . So many varieties , of all sizes and prices , its very hard to leave without buying a koi ! Today was no exception , and we found some nice sanke 45-50cm , nisai and females among them . Also a nice kikisui , and a doitsu krashigoi , (that is for a customers order ) . No first day visit , would be complete without a visit to Maruhiro , so off we went . When we got there , the place was heaving , dealers everywhere , but we still managed to strike up a deal for 21 nisai , incuding a stunning kindai show . As it was so busy , we got the breeder , to put all the koi in a floating net , and we would return in the morning to video and take pictures . 

 

Mean while , heres the Yagenji nisai purchased today . 

 

 

Very nice male sanke 

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