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This trait goes back to the foundation stock of Matsunosuke the senior. Toshio tells the story of how he would, as a young boy, sneak out to the monthly carp breeders meeting at the community center and listen from outside the open window to the village breeders talk about what they were doing at the time. This included his father's efforts at the time.
At that time, the fish of Niigata carried what was then known as Niigata gin. This was an attractive gin on a scale but very unattractive as general appointment in that it was all over the fish and very hard to congregate. Eventually the southern part of the country came up with more uniform ginrin specimens while most energy was directed towards surpressing the stray Niigata gin in the north. But good is good and this was the same skin that produced great fukurin and thick beni and sumi of depth. So while some were breeding the general trait out of gosanke, Matsunosuke senior used a look of skin and body shape to concentrate the traits, of which one was a genetically linked strip of gin scales going back to the foundation stock with niigata gin.
At one point, as the ZNA judging system fixed gosanke standards ( especially kohaku) stray ginrin was considered a distraction and hurt an individual koi in competition somewhat. But the Matsunosuke sanke with the classic body was expected to have a flash or stip of ginrin on tail tube or along the body as it was a tolerated component of a greater 'silky' skin type. Great debates took place around this exception and eventually ZNA came up with a specific number of rows a ginrin must have to be a ginrin. - JR
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