Torazo's blog

I have done 3 spawnings so far this year which were trials, as you have read on Mark's blog, unfortunately the results were not very good.

Last night I spawned to sets of Sanke parents.  These pictures are of the oyagoi.

The female Sanke in the first picture won 80bu Kokugyo prize at the 2007 All Japan Koi Show.

Spawning was finished at 4am and both females produced many eggs.  Now I hope for good fry and, tonight, a good nights sleep.

Mark posted about some nisai being released to the mud ponds last week.

Today we released another 37 nisai, or ake-sansai (Koi that will become 3 years old), to the mud ponds.

Here are some pictures of the Koi.

Last night Izumiya-san invited me and my wife, and also Maruju-san and Miyatora-san and their wives, for a meal at Tochu Ryoutei.  Ryoutei means traditional Japanese restaurant.

This old traditional building has been here in Ojiya for around 150 years since the Edo period (1603-1867).

You can see lots more pictures of the very traditional building on their website http://www.touchu.co.jp/.  It is only in Japanese, just click on the links of the left.

Today I took photographs of some of our nisai Kohaku and Sanke. 

Some of these nisai can be seen in the photos below when the were tosai in May 2008 before they were put into our mudponds in Oguni which are about 15km from Ojiya.