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Posted by ray jordan
on 2/5/2009, 2:50 am, in reply to "Re: breeding red and white ones"
66.142.67.205
Here is some of the information on the origins of Sanke I have been able to glean from reading old koi magazines and asking questions of koi breeders and dealers in Japan.
About the beginning of the 20th century there were some tri-colored carp produced with white skin with bluish accents on the scales in the red markings. This new type of colored carp was called Yohachi Sanke after their creator Mr. Yohachi Tachikawa who lived near Niigata City. These early Goromo/Sanke predecessors were created from cross breeding Kohaku and Asagi “type” colored carp.
In 1917, in a village in the area near what we know today as Ojiya City, a colored carp breeder Mr. Heitaro Sato was known for breeding some very nice Kohaku. A few of his Kohaku unexpectedly developed small sumi (black) areas on the edges of their red colored scales. These Kohaku with sumi have been described as something similar to having Goromo edging on a small area of the red pattern. Perhaps accidentally or on purpose an Asagi or an Asagi cross or a Yohachi Sanke had found their way into the breeding pond. Or maybe since Asagi are the original ancestors of all types of koi perhaps a hidden recessive gene decided to emerge? Whatever the origin, word of these new type of colored carp began to spread across the area. Most carp breeders felt that that Kohaku with sumi were not desirable and most were destroyed. Luckily a few survived and Mr. Eizaburo Hoshino of a nearby village called Takezawa was able to obtain a few of these Kohaku with sumi. Mr. Hoshino wanted to produce a new type of colored carp with a third color (black) arranged in a beautiful pattern that would accent the red and white colors of a Kohaku.
Mr. Hoshino crossed one of these female “Kohaku with sumi” with a male Aka (red) Bekko and succeeded in creating a stable new type of colored carp that he named “Shima Sanshoku” which means striped fins and three colors. This was a exciting beautiful new type of colored carp that bred true and had the beautiful red & white markings of a Kohaku and the powerful sumi accents and striped fins of a Bekko. After a few years this type of koi was renamed in honor of the then Japanese Emperor/Era which was Taisho. So this new type of colored carp was called Taisho Sanshoku (three-colored) or what we know today as Taisho Sanke or usually we just shorten the name to Sanke which means tri-colored.
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