| Haijiro is translated " bird wing " and has to do with where and how much white is positioned on a black body. Yotsu is in 4 areas......what you have as already identified is a GR matsukawbake.
It's about my favorite fish and while I think most modern day folks think of it in terms of a scaled kumonryu....they came first before doutsu.They never got popular tho it was my first variety of koi when i started the hobby to fall in love with. A couple of years ago I bred them and they are georgeous. The nicest one I've seen in the flesh is owned by Dan Blatt in olympia washington
just for the record...matsukawabake got it's name because it was produced in a small villiage in a pine forest by the river
matsu is pine, kawa was the river, bake means variable...changes from black to white with temps as a youngster, they become more stable with age |