| Bob,
One thing I noticed in the pictures of your showa is that when it went shiromuji, like my kohaku, as the color faded, the white that was left is not really white. I could see a lot of pinkish 'flesh tone' color on my 'ex-kohaku' instead of the white that used to be there. Yours appears to have done the same thing. Especially in the area where there used to be color.
Certainly white is as much a color as red and black. We see varying degrees of good, better & best white, so I guess when a koi goes shiromuji, instead of it becoming white, it actually loses most of the white it had along with the other color that went away.
Dale |