Hi Brady
Our showa is a 3 year old Ogata, she is 26.6". Ogata had showed my husband and I pictures of her last October, as a 2 year old, we liked her body confirmation, and her Beni was excellent and her shiroji was very good. The sumi had just started coming up on her head. When Ogata pulled her up out of the mud pond, in November my husband made another trip to Japan, to view her in person, he already had my vote just from the pics, but we never buy any fish from a picture. So when he arrived Ogata told him you will be happy with the showa. The next day my husband looked at her, with our friend Joe Co. They both agreed this was a keeper. So he bought her, we had her shipped home. He also bought a 3 year old 3 step kohaku and a 4 year old showa, with great potential.