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2010 Wakagoi Show - Tosu City, Kyushu Island
› April 05, 2010
Koibito Japan went to the 2010 Wakagoi Show over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of April. Plenty of great koi to be seen from all over Japan, with the winning koi, owned by a Chinese hobbyist, being crowned Grand Champion.
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Momotaro Mako Showa Jumbo Tosai
› March 04, 2010
Momotaro Koi Farm has been heavily promoting their Mako Showa bloodline over the last couple of years, so most of you should know it by now. But, Mako Showa Jumbo Tosai has only been sold in previous years at auction, or as small Tosai. This year things are different...
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45th ZNA Koi Show 2009
› November 14, 2009
Koibito Japan headed to Shimane Prefecture to take a look around the ZNA (Zen Nippon Airinkai) Koi Show, and bring back photos of the winners for you to check out...
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Momotaro 'Azukarigoi' 2009 (Keeping Koi)
› November 13, 2009
Koibito Japan manages the keeping (or in Japanese, 'Azukari') of koi in Japan for many of our customers. We went to Momotaro today to take photos and catch up with some of our customer's koi...
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Oyama Koi Farm - Show Quality 3-sai Showa
› November 10, 2009
Oyama Koi Farm has been busy producing Goshiki over the last couple of years, thankfully for us, he hasn't forgotten about breeding beautiful Showa... :-)
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Marusei Jumbo!
› November 07, 2009
Today we had the benefit of Yoshiyuki Hirasawa of Marusei Koifarm in taking us with him to an unknown koi-stock-area, where we would have the opportunity to select some nice Jumbo size Koi for one of our customers.
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Yamatoya Nisai Harvest - Autumn 2009
› October 22, 2009
Koibito was able to take part in the harvesting (Ikeage) of the final mudpond of Nisai remaining at Yamatoya Koi Farm today.
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Momotaro Nisai Mako Showa Harvest - Autumn 2009
› October 17, 2009
Being based in Okayama has definite benefits when it comes to getting the scoop on harvests at Momotaro Koi Farm. Today Koibito Japan saw the one pond harvested of the Nisai from the 2008 spawning of Mako Showa, Momotaro's much talked about Showa line of koi...
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Doitsu Hi-Showa at Koshiji Koi Farm (Kase)
› October 12, 2009
We visited Kase (Koshiji Koi Farm) a few days ago, and found something rather interesting swimming in one of his ponds...
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Yamazaki's new koi house
› October 12, 2009
Many of you will have bought koi from Yamazaki Koi Farm, either directly or via ordering in Spring. Well for those of you who know Manabu Yamazaki, you may be interested to know he has been more busy this summer than usual.
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