I am on a fantastic journey to the
birthplace of the nishikigoi here in
Japan a number of hard-working koi
breeders are creating for many
generations one of the most wonderful
fishes on our planet welcome to the
world of nishikigoi
although a Chinese books from the Jin
dynasty mentions the Kois a colorful cob
it is assumed that breeding koi is an
amount of fish would have started in the
19th century in the Japanese prefecture
Niigata it was until 1914 that these
standards became known to the outside
world when the Niigata koi were
exhibited at the Tokyo koi Fair the
meridia farm is located in mushi game or
more precisely in the Jama cozy
mountains of the Nakata area for the
breeding of koi to millions liters of
water are available in the 77 mud ponds
of the Muju koi farm the farm was
founded in 1945 by you coochie Tanaka
and today the farm is run by the third
generation of the Tanaka family the
three brothers sagashi mitsugu and
Yasuyuki are creating and breeding one
of the most beautiful koi of this area
these days the merger koi farm has
specialized in breeding dramas tensho
and Showa
before we went back to our hotel we get
a small master clause of severe she
Tanaka about the quality of his gorillas
is perhaps the so-called mud ponds
almost every collie that's allowed to
swim in a Japanese mud ponds around the
summer is perfect because the koi can
develop much better than in an
artificial pond these fish
I've just been harvested after swimming
around for five months in a mud pond
he's four year old koi fish are
photographed and made up so that the
owners can be informed at the end of the
day
after a busy morning at the enemy koi
farm potato
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when we arrived at the Aoki koi farm the
breeder was selecting the koi that just
came in from the harvest currently Aoki
breeds several metallic varieties with
around 100 parent animals most of them
are dyed to metallic koi and are well
known for the high quality
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when the breeder was finished we were
finally able to select some beautiful
two-year-old koi for our shop we
selected one box of koi and the breeder
gave us a very good prize
local boys otherwise many come of you
zero and go to some play go to something
every Friday four times a month there's
a koi action for local residents and
dealers
the fish are collected by the
auctioneers and numbered before they
auctioned in the auction coil house
later that afternoon as a foreigner
we're not welcome during the auction but
during the collection
I'm warmly welcomed here
when your visit Japan it is worth to
visit one of the thousand temples in the
country unfortunately filming inside is
not allowed but the outside is already
breathtaking
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after impressed this morning we go to
the kavik a McCoy farm the readers are
harvesting late this year so the supply
at the beginning of our COI trip is
really low we quickly select one small
ball with coin before we drive to the
Mary here koi farm
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one of the customer is looking for a
good cigar and helps to succeed here at
Amory hero koi farm when you arrive at
the Merrill Iroquois farm the first
thing you see is the big round swimming
pool with the amazing big and beautiful
koi
unfortunately his new dream fish is not
there and we continue our way once back
at the Tanaka family we can go straight
to the gist harvest as Gary fish as a
gary means carrying for in japanese for
an annual amount the breeder takes over
the care of your fish because the fish
grows further here in the mud pans
during the summer the results are often
higher than those in their own pond
a big advantage of at a zoo Gary is the
climate in Niigata it can get very hot
here in the summer times which is very
good for the growth of the koi
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the breeder message the new length of
the koi and make some pictures for the
owners
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today's moist
we are closing today at Joe guru koi
farm a flash visit where we search for a
regular client for one beautiful jumbo
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today's copies of rector Moorea Moorea
rest about in there is a hole in and how
do you see they spread really quick we
have chosen the best koi we get
opportunity to select some nice I played
an amalgam and the reader is checking
the sex of the koi is the marui koi farm
big mud pound with of course the tension
show show Sankey sakis and lots of more
bit coy so I said come on let's go
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if you're we drive to the coin museum I
have to buy a present for my
three-year-old son a big challenge here
in Japan given the huge choice in toys
but all the toys are child friendly but
they think differently about this the
nishikigoi museum in Japan Oh gia is a
place you must visit when you explore in
Niigata beside all the beautiful coin
boys and you can enjoy you're able to
learn more about the nishikigoi history
in 2004 there was a big earthquake in
the Niigata area that also destroyed
parts of the coin Museum in Odia after
the earthquake local breeders donated
the koi to the museum to get the museum
up and running again the impact of the
earthquake was so heavy that a lot of
breeders lost big numbers of koi the
inner pond contains about 200 bit coy
that you can feed during your visit the
outside pump contains about 100 coin
each visitor can adopt a coil for a
certain amount in return you will get a
picture in your name at the entrance of
the coin Museum well as the 5 euros you
can enjoy the beautiful koi Museum in
Japan
I'd love to Japanese monster
we start our fifth day yet the ISA coil
farm where they just arrived from the
harvest after a visual inspection the
cows get directly into the ponds and
already for sale
we noticed after five days of our trip
that the breeders are harvesting more
and more koi
hiroi also better known as Canas is busy
with the selection and retrieval of the
new fish that just came out of the mud
pond
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we are lucky we have the first choice
and are happy that we succeed with
buying the koi here at corneas
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today we start at the easy McCoy farm
where we need to select some really nice
color for our shop
this year we are again invited for the
annual energy event a party with a lot
of beautiful fish and some good food
that was one number one intern we're
lucky today because we have one the best
fish from two different things
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we'll do you fish in the morning time
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we're both waiting to the right moment
this is the game I love beating out with
the Oracle
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so they burrow Malaysian Thunderbird
orphanarium so here comes Jake wheeler
kpu Bonita
unfortunately it's already our last day
of our trip to Japan it's a busy day
with the flu agenda after I've selected
some fantastic koi including some nice
Kohaku's and gorillas we go to the
Nagaoka koi show
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