Shintaro Ake-nisai Showa Feeding

I've mentioned many times my affinity with the Shintaro Ake-Nisai Showa spawned last summer - http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/400

These Koi now all reside in Shintaro's mudponds in the valley between Mushigame and Takezawa, a valley you cut cut through from one side and out the other, driving straight past the ponds where the Showa are, as such almost daily I do so to check on their progress.

Last Friday, having stood watching them for maybe 30 minutes I left and made my way out of the valley up 'Shintaro Lane', a track which winds up past some of Saito-san's fry ponds, and where Shousuke can be found tending his vegetables around the ponds.  This year he's started a grape vine!

As I made my way out of the valley I looked back to see Saito-san making his way down from the other side, I guessed with some food for the Koi.  I considered a 3 point turn on the dirt track, barely wide enough for a single vehicle, but thought better of it.  More sensibly I headed to the main road, turned around, and straight back down.

Sure enough they were being fed, here's some video.  The water is still quite clear in the pond, soon it will colour up and visibility will be much reduced.

A couple of Niigata-Nishikigoi.com visitors will recognise their Ake-nisai Shintaro Showa amongst the feeding melee.

Unfortunately the amount of movement in the video, and the compression, makes the Niigata-Nishikigoi.com version of the video quite blurry.

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