Comments from Japanese Judges

( Translated by Hideo Takemoto san )

TAKEMOTO Hideo <hideotakemoto@anrisa.com>

Jemmy-san,

Below is the summary of Japanese judges feed back about your 81 cm Taisho Sanke Grand Champion.

1. Size, body shape and skeletal structure are excellent.

2. Size of Fukurin (fish scale) is large. (This is part of skeletal structure evaluation, the large scale is considered good.)3. Quality of Hi (Red Color) is excellent. Hi has to have strong thickness, the

hi was "thick enough".

4. Quality of Shiroji (White Color) is excellent, for them to call it "Snow White Skin" grade.

5. Quality of Sumi (Black Color) is considered excellent condition as well. Please look at Sumi condition in board view (bird view), the condition is considered well finished condition. The condition of Hi, Shiroji and Sumi are finished at excellent level.

6. Usually, keeping Sanke which has three different colors is more difficult than that of others, and it has tendency to win the prize if competitor is Kohaku and its condition is similar.

7. All three Japanese judges believed that your Sanke was going to be grand champion in their first glance even before completely seeing all other entries entries for Grand Champion koi. This shows that the Sanke is really outstanding.

8. Sumi (Black Color) of Your Taisho.I am sorry that I have forgotten one very important comment from Judges. They call Sumi of your Koi is great "Urushi Zumi" condition. Urushi means Japanese Lacquer (varnish sumac) extracted from tree.Traditional Japanese wooden china (Cups and Dishes) craft worker usually apply Urushi Lacquer for finishing of china surface, making it deeplyback and shining enough. In short, Urushi Zumi Condition means Sumi is beautiful shinny deep black.

Congratulaions!!

Regards,

Hideo Takemoto