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Problem with Kigoi, JR, is they throw so much orange. Brady was trying to re-make Ki Utsuri. He lost the group and last I heard a year or so ago he was going to try again, but needed to find the proper oyagoi. He would not say what he was using. (Trade secret!) I suggested using Shiro Utsuri and some of his least metallic Yamabuki culls. He nixed that idea.
I've only seen one Ki Showa of worth and that was in a photo. If the photo could be believed, it was a true chrysanthemum yellow on white with fairly decent "country sumi". Body conformation was, well, let's say "imperfect". Still, the color and pattern combination was wonderful. Definitely a variety worth creating, if only the effort and space required was not so great.
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