| Hi Don,
Very cool stuff. It adds a lot of credence to the idea that something unique would need to be bred to produce a unique new type of koi like a showa.
Most of the stores we hear and the famous geanology charts show a shiro Utsuri or a different kind of Utsuri crossed with a kohaku created the showa. It always seemed to illogical to me that lots of breeders at the time were crossing these same types of koi and only one breeder was able to get a different result.
However one of the stories I heard was that a secret Kawarigoi that had grey skin and small red spots on it's side like a trout was crossed with a Shiro Utsuri to create the orginal showa. Could the koi that Hoshino purchased that was a cross between a Asagi and a Shiro Utsuri been this secret Kawarigoi?
Bob, Do you have the July/Aug 1992 KOI USA Issue. If so may I borrow it please. Thank You. |