Koi Breeder

Marusho koi farm started by Mr. Tanaka some 40 years agao and now ran by his son Makato Tanaka. One of the older koifarms located in Yomogihira village. They have about 15 sets of parent koi and over 60 mud ponds.

Mr. Tsuyoshi Kawakami has vague idea about this Torazo lineage because it lived during his father’s generation. But from little he could gather, these much he could tell… he remembered one of the famous koi which Torazo have produced is the one owned by one Mr. Shozaburo Sato of Oita. This koi which is a Taisho Sanshoku, won the Kokugyo Prize at the 7th Shinkokai All Japan Show.

In 1992, Mr. Minuma was breeding good Kuro Goshiki. I got a female from him. And I got a male from Mr. Aizawa. My koi are originally from the Kuro Goshiki family. So it tends to get dark all over the body. Please look at Picture 2. This is a parent. As you can see, it is a dark koi; its offspring also tends to darken its hi pattern. It took me a while to remove this. I tried to remove the black and improve my koi.

At the All Japan Nishikigoi Show, there is a title for Best Koi in each variety. To win the title, koi must be at least 75-80 cm (30-32in). For koi to grow that big, I have to introduce the character to koi. I have Benigoi that grows more than 1 m (40in). I am planning to introduce the blood of this Benigoi so that all Goshiki can grow bigger.

Absolutely. I pass my techniques to my sons. My sons hand it over to grandsons. So in the Nishikigoi industry of Niigata, those techniques from the ancestors have been transferred over the generations. This is the reason why Niigata can breed the most beautiful Nishikigoi in the world.

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Mr. Kazutaka Suda breeds Nishikigoi in Ojiya-city, Niigata. With a great vision he works hard in making them reality. 90% of the Koi, which he breeds, are shipped outside Japan.

Nogami Koi Farm was founded by forerunner, Hisayuki Nogami in 1968. Our family was originally a farm family, but when my father married the elder sister of Mr. Minoru Mano from Dainichi Koi Farm, we started to hear a lot about Nishikigoi whenever there were reunions such as Buddhist sermons or festivals, and we developed an interest in them. We at first produced small quantities of Nishikigoi and then went on to build a Koi farm.

Yagenj koi farm is located in the village of Mushigame, Yamakoshi Niigata, where Nishikigoi originated. Daisuke Ishihara Yagenji koi farm started in 1963 by Yaichi Ishihara, now owned by Daisuke Ishihara, working together with his younger brother, Toshinori Ishihara.