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Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Rombold Criteria? Tategoi are about inspiration, imagination and connection. There are no criteria. Criteria are used to judge koi. There are universal truths that are common in all things beautiful. Tategoi are about the journey.

Couldn't have said this much better. If there is any criteria at all, it would have to be the discerning eye of an artist fired up by the Muse. That's why I can't tell anyone how to pick a fish for me and how I can no sooner base my selections on stark logic than the man in the moon. Sure, you can say you want this kind of conformation and that sort of pattern from whatever bloodline you admire and list all kinds of attributes that the fish must have before you would want to make it your own, but in the end it all comes down to the elements that Richard relayed about the selection of tategoi--inspiration, imagination, connection and the universal truths of all things beautiful.

It is a fascinating journey.