Uedera Koi Farm





I have been visiting Uedera Koi Farm regularly for the past four years and am liking his Koi more and more. Having bought many of his Shiro and Sanke with great results, you can see one of his Shiro's in the development section of the website. On this visit he had some excellent, value high quality Kujaku with superb white skin and pattern. Two other Kujaku also took my eye but with a very high price and one a recent winner at the Hiroshima Koi Show I settled for these two.

      

The following Koi were purchased 2 superb Kujaku and a Sanke with plenty of underlying sumi ,excellent beni and white skin a trait of Sadazo bloodline you can read more about Uedera and see his Female Sanke Oyagoi in my 2011 May blog.


45cm to 50cm Nisai Female POA

Takigawa Koi farm




After two very cold days it was nice to see the sun and after 30 mins drive from my Hotel I was at Takigawa. Last year work had started on improving his outside ponds and new Koi house and it was good to see it completed ready for this years spawnings.


 

  Takigawa was busy grading his Tosai g0-sanke , many breeders dont sell Tosai this early as they need to grade a couple more times, selecting their Tategoi to sell later or put in the mud ponds.

I had come to buy Karashigoi , this variety is the trend at the moment and have seen then at three farms in 5 days. Last year i bought some Jumbo Tosai and Tosai and needed to stock up again.

  

A box of 18cm Tosai were selected and 6 superb Female Karashigoi and Kigoi Nisai 50cm.



I will be back at Takigawa in April for his Gosanke tosai.

In the afternoon it was back to Oishi Koi Farm for some more Nisai varieties I had seen earlier in the week



All Nisai 30cm , Superb price £149

The following Koi were produced by Oishi's best Female Oyagoi and all selected for their long term potential, selecting Tosai at this level is not easy but with a good understanding of the bloodline and experience of how beni developes in young Tosai it is a great challenge to take up.  

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5 6 7

All produced May 2011 and now 22cm , POA 















Other Tosai bought included, Showa , Kujaku , Shiro Utsuri and Kohaku, pictures were not good so you will need to visit the shop to see them or keep looking on the website, Date for arrival of these koi will be posted as soon as i get it.

A short walk back to the main fish house and the following koi were purchased, the Shusui's have great skin and patterns and havingbought this variety from Oishi many times the hard water in England doesnt affect their colour. Oishi's Shusui grow very big. The kumonryu have jet black sumi and excellent white skin.

 

The Shusui's are 40cm - 45cm and the Kumonryu 35cm - 40cm


Shusui £395                                         Kumonryu £245

The rest of the day was spent at the New Fish House looking at some of this years Nisai and Sansai for customers,  I will post some pictures and videos later as negotiations are still ongoing..

Day 4 The Fuchu Dai-ichi Hotel would be my base for 4 days now as I will be visting Oishi and other farms in th Hiroshima area.

 

The videos below are from Oishi's Sansai and Yonsai pond and contain many show winning koi and some that will be entered in this years All Japan Koi Show . The Sansai and Yonsai Kohaku are between 65cm and 75cm.









The Koi below are some of last years Nisai harvest produced from Oishi's Number 1 Kohaku and Sanke Female Parent

      

More information will be posted tomorrow ,below are videos taken today. The Kohaku are from 48cm to 54cm and the Sanke is 42cm.








This Sansai Kohaku is now 67cm and was purchased in January last year at 52cm, she grew 15cm in the mud pond as was produced from Oishi's number 1 93cm Female Oyagoi and Sakai Male Kohaku produced from Yamoto.







Today I purchased several Tategoi from last May's spawning , produced from the same parents as the above Koi. Details will be in the next blog section.

Day 3.......Isawa Nishikigoi Centre  gets a Roof! 

 
 

 I arrived at The Isawa Nishikigoi Centre about 8.30am to find there is now a roof covering the main area outside, for those of you that have visited this farm when its raining will know how frustrating that can be. Soon several ponds were netted and the following Koi selected.

 

All the above are from 25cm to 35cm and for sale at £135 each.  Superb value Matsunosuke Koi.!!

 

These 7 Nisai are priced between £295 and £350. Superb quality skin and the potential to grow very Big.



Before lunch a quick visit to the many Tosai houses to check out last years spawnings , as I will be back to visit Toshio Sakai  in April when his Gosanke will be made available to me.


 

Another part of the farm had some superb Yamabuki and Shiro Utsuri 30cm and very high quality.Two boxes were purchased these koi are priced at £150 each

 






Its a long journey to Fuchu in Hiroshima from Isawa but this gave me time to catch up wth some much needed computer time.

After a busy first day I was looking forward to completing several orders for customers and new stocks for the shop , first  stop was to Yamazaki a breeder who produces many varieties and here I would find many of the koi I needed.

 
Nisai 1                                                                   Nisai 2
 
Purchased were Kumonryu , Yamabuki Harawake, Soragoi, Beni Goi, Platinum Ogon, Doitsu Platinum, Doitsu Karashigoi, Gin Rin Shiro and Gin Matsuba. 35cm to 40cm Price £175 each. All have very clear skin and heads and excellent value.

Cick HEREfor Video of Nisai 1 and HERE for Nisai 2

Day 2 will be continued later ........



Nisai 3

Also purchased are  Yamabuki Harewake , Doitsu Platinum Ogon , Kumonryu , Beni Kumonryu and Ochiba. They are between 40cm and 45cm. Female £295.

Nisai 3 video  here

 

After a good morning with Yamasaki , it wasnt long and I was back at Murodo to take a closer look at some of the huge koi this breeder produces , one variety that is becoming more popular due to their quick growth and size is Karashigoi.


 

Karashigoi Video    here


These are two of the different types of Karashigoi arriving next month. They all have superb body shape and clear heads. All Female's  65cm . Other Koi purchased icluded Male and Female Platinum Ogons, 45cm superb white skin.

 
Females  £395                                           Males      £295

Click  HERE for Video

Details about one breeder will be posted later as these Koi are exclusive to me , over the last few years he has improved his Sanke superbly and has Won many Major prizes at many koi shows in Japan including The All Japan Koi Show. He uses two lines for his Sanke and two of the most famous Tarazo and Sadazo. The two main Female Oyagoi are  98cm and 92cm .More details will follow later in this blog.

Other koi purchased on this second day included many Tosai, varieties, Ochiba Shigure , Goshiki , Kikisui , Budo goromo , Asagi , Go-Sanke , Harewake and as many Yamabuki from Izumiya as you need!

 
    
After a very busy two days and with 20 boxes purchased  it was now the long drive to The Isawa Nishikigoi Centre the home of Matsunosuke.