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Quote: Originally Posted by dick benbow 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

In general, I get bored very easily and have trouble staying focused on any single interest for any great length of time; hence, it's the transient state of Koi, during it's development, is what has kept me engrossed in the hobby. And that was during a time when I had no inkiling of the existence of Matsukawabake/Kumonryu!

Now that I'm not as ignorant, I find myself inevitably drawn to the more obvious transient states of Matsukawabake/Kumonryu.

You wouldn't happen to have a picture of Mr Blatt's koi, do u?