Sunday 11 October 2009

Japan Trip October 2009

We will be heading off to Japan on the 22 nd October until the 5 th November, Naturaly we will be updating our blog with new koi purchased. If you are looking for that special koi then please feel freee to e-mail me your requirements, we will be only to happy to try and find what your looking for.

Absolute Koi Team

Sunday 29 March 2009

2009 Wakagoi Grand Champion 63 kohaku

This Kohaku bred by Sakai Hiroshima was a well deserved winner!


Young Champion 43 Utsurimono

This Shiro Utsuri entered by Koi San Europe, I'm guessing Omosako, took my eye!


Kokugyo Prize 58 Utsurimono


Wakagoi Show

Our base for the show was the Best Western Tosu Hotel, after a good nights sleep we headed off to the show, the image below is from the bridge between the hotel and the show.

Saturday 28 March 2009

Wakagoi (Young All Japan Show)

Morning All

Arrived in Tosu for the Wakagoi, Young All Japan Show late last night. After an 11 hour plane journey, then 5 hour on the bullet train, then another 7 hours on the bullet train tomorrow going back up to Niigata, is it worth it ?

You bet it is!

We are at the show all day today, then back up to Niigata in search of High Grade Tosai

We went out with our Japanese hosts for a traditional Japanese meal last night, very nice! We are at the show today so will be updating things later. Watch this space!

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Japan Spring Buying Trip 2009

We shall be heading off to Japan on Friday 24 th March until the 4 th April, we will be at the Wakagoi show (Young All Japan) in Tosu and back up to the mountains of Niigata to look for high quality Tosai.

We will be updating this blog on a daily basis, so please stay tuned!

Tuesday 27 January 2009

Ochiba from Kaneko



We purchased this koi back in March 2008 she was 25 cm, we left her in our mudpond to grow on, when harvested in Oct 2008 she was 60 cm.
Its always a little worrying when leaving koi to grow on as there's lots of risk involved, but one things for sure the learning experience of how the koi developes is very rewarding!







Below is a video of the Ochiba back in the UK


Torazo Nisai




A Few Tancho's from Maruju!


Welcome to Absolute Koi's New Blog

This Blog will be used whilst we are in Japan buying stocks, this will be updated daily with images and videos of koi we have purchased.