Ojiya Nishikigoi exhibition and sales event

You may recall that last year, as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for Nishikigoi no Sato, an exhibition and sales event was held there - http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/362.

Today a similar event was held again in the car park for Nishikigoi no Sato and Sun Plaza.

As you can see from the picture below the weather was truly glorious, this being perhaps the only thing about this year's event that was superior to last year.

This year there were fewer vats and, to be honest, the standard of Koi on display was not as high as last year.  Despite the glorious weather, and the fact that there have been posters all over Ojiya advertising the event, visitor numbers seemed incredibly low as were sales.

Below a member of Dainichi staff bagging one of their tosai that had been sold.

The pictures below some examples of Koi that were on offer, plenty of non-Gosanke available.

The Goshiki below are from Kanno Koi Farm, somewhere I must get around to visiting soon, I've not visited since October 2007 when I stumbled upon them harvesting a mud pond near the breakfast spot.