Nogami sansai and yonsai harvest

On Friday we had invites to harvests at Isa and Marudo.  Following our early start the previous day for the Kazuto harvest - http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/562 - and a rather late night myself and Andrew decided a bit of a lie in was the order of the day but hoped we'd catch the Koi arriving back. 

When we got to Isa everything had been unloaded already.  We headed for Marudo who were starting their harvest a little later.  When we got there we were told it would be another 30 minutes or so until they arrived back. 

Nogami is just a short drive away on the other side of Route 17 so we decided to go there for a look.  As we arrived they had also just arrived from a harvest of 3 and 4 year Koi and were starting unloading. I don't really need to add any commentary to the Koi, they speak for themselves. 

This particular Showa, excuse the poor picture, was absolutely stunning and spot on 75cm at 4 years old.  Nogami-san turned to me and joked, 'Mark-san, so-so Koi, what do you think?'  I joked back, 'yeah, so-so'.  This Koi will be going to the Nogyosai and Nogami-san stated, 'maybe best in size'.  In just 5 days time we'll see.

I am attending a harvest of Nogami-sans best Koi later in the week, can't wait!!