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Aloha!
A first class anything ( asagi-kawarimono etc) can command prices as expensive as better gosanke.
I have a hard time finding asagi I like because they either have too much red or not enough for my tastes. Hosokai breeds a silver lined blue scale that is 1% of his spawn. It takes three years for the white head, net pattern and red to develop sufficiently to make an educated quess as to the value of the asagi. By that time other breeds could have sold that koi 3 times over, hence the price of a good one is up there. Also the fact that fewer people breed them helps as well
as the market is not flooded.
they are wild, powerful koi,fearsome to net and handle, yet vulnerable to popping a scale and running an entire pattern. ( when the asagi han grows back in it's a different color and sticks out like a sore thumb. ) you really have to love these koi to be devoted to them.
the old expression of the hobby starting and ending with kohaku does not apply to me. It started with Matsukawabake, and is ending with asagi...darn howley! Shows you what I know! (LOL)
Mahalo
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