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Posted by ray jordan
on 2/5/2009, 3:04 am, in reply to "Origins of Sanke"
66.142.67.205
In the late 19th century a type of naturally occurring Magoi called Tetsu magoi (Iron carp) were being bred together and some of the offspring had red bellys and some were mostly or even completely red and were called Higoi. (red carp) Crossing Higoi with Tetsu Magoi produced a new type of carp called a Bekko. (Tortoise) The original Bekko had a red body with black accent marks and striped fins. Lighter and lighter colored Bekko were created until a Ki (yellow) Bekko was produced. Over time Bekko were crossed back to Tetsu Magoi to produce a brand new type of colored carp that had a red body and a different type of large black accent marks that wrapped around the body and striped fins. This new type of black based carp was called an Utsuri (reflections). The original Utsuri was a Hi (red) Utsuri with striped fins and was the result of back crosses of Hi Bekko to Tetsu Magoi. Eventually lighter colored Ki(yellow) and finally Shiro(white) Utsuri were produced. It has been recorded in several resources that Mr. Kazuo Minemura in 1925 succeeded in producing the 1st Shiro Utsuri in Mushigame village. However do not confuse this original Shiro Utsuri to the modern Shiro Utsuri. Modern Shiro Utsuri are a result of modern Showa breeding and selecting individuals without red color. So in the early 1920’s the major types of “colored” carp that had already been created were Asagi, Kohaku, Sanke, Bekko, and Utsuri.
In 1926 Jukichi Hoshino (Jintaro) of Takezawa village created a unique new type of black based carp with three colors. It was called a Showa Sanshoku in honor of the new Japanese Emperor/Showa Era. Most of the stories I have read or heard repeated said that either the parent koi were both Utsuri or one was an Utsuri and the other was a Kohaku that created the 1st Showa. No doubt other colored carp breeders of that time had crossed numerous versions of these same combinations of koi but it is very interesting to me that only Mr. Hoshino was able to produce the original Showa?
It seemed odd to me that Mr. Hoshino could have used the same colored carp parent crossings but was able to produce a different result? Then, I heard a different story about the parent koi that Mr. Hoshino used to produce his original showa. In this other version of the story Mr. Hoshino used Utsuri males crossed to an odd looking Kawarigoi female. The Kawarigoi female was described as having a grayish body with a small amount of red on her head and several red spots down one side kind of like a river trout markings. Also in a November 2005 article about Showa history in Nichirin magazine the same type of crossing to a trout like colored Kawarigoi was described. If I had not been researching this same information I would likely have not noticed this tidbit of similar data. It was thought that a pond that contained this odd koi was located above and next to a pond with some of Mr. Hoshino’s shiro utsuri. When the pond was harvested in the fall it was discovered that this kawari had somehow gotten into the shiro utsuri pond and there were some unique new types of baby koi present. It was felt the addition of the kawarigoi spawning with the Shiro Utsuri created a odd new type of tri colored koi variety. This is an example of how some koi history/genealogy descriptions from different sources can sometimes confirm some details that are reported in different ways. So which version is accurate? We will probably never know for certain but I tend to believe that it is much more likely that Mr. Hoshino somehow used a different type of parent crossing to produce a unique new type of three colored koi with wrapping sumi.
There are no photos that I have found to date of the original Showa and of course they would not be in color anyway. There is no doubt it would be a much different looking koi compared to the modern Showa. In fact it would likely be difficult to view an old color photo of an original “type” Showa and even identify it as an Showa. The original Showa was described to me as a dark tri-colored koi with a grayish base color with Asagi scale edging. It had a wrapping black pattern and striped fins like an Utsuri. The Hi pattern was usually a yellowish brown color. This description matched almost perfectly with a photo I discovered in Masauki Amano’s book “Live Jewels” published in 1968. On page 77 there is a photo of a “Showa-Sanke”. I was able to confirm with Megumi Yoshida that indeed this photo showed a koi that was similar to the original Showa.
The rather drab original Showa quickly fell out of favor after the improvements by Mr. Tomijii Kobayashi in the early 1960's that produced the modern Showa that we would all recognize today. BUt that is another more modern story.
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