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Dinh: No time to pull out my books to try to find you a date for your second question. As to the first, "koi" is anglicized and likely would not have been used until nishikigoi were in the West. I doubt any one can give you a date on that. On the other hand, the phonetic twin "goi" is the romanized version of the Japanese term for carp ... so there have been "goi" for many centuries. "Ma" goi, "Iro" goi, "Cha" goi, "Sora" goi .... all simply color/trait descriptions of goi. I think "Nishiki" goi would be late 19th century, but would have to check my books.
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