It is hard to get a decent Tancho Showa at my place at a reasonable price.
This is what was available.
Not the perfect Tancho ( Red Circle), but skin quality is good.
What do you think?
Yay or Nay?
It is hard to get a decent Tancho Showa at my place at a reasonable price.
This is what was available.
Not the perfect Tancho ( Red Circle), but skin quality is good.
What do you think?
Yay or Nay?
I have been told that if the beni extends more than 5 scales up into the top of the fish, beyond what we might call the "forehead", that it is not actually a Tancho. Sorry I don't have better words or a more technical way of saying this, but I don't think that fish is a Tancho.
FWIW, I got my hands on a pretty nice fish that I call a "Tancho" because the Beni went about 7 scales beyond where it should have. Bought it at a show from a competitor that realized his fish had no show potential. But it is technically not a Tancho.
Would probably need to know age, size, and a still picture to see the body conformation.
Tanchos are a joke. They are gimmick created by the Koi sellers. They have NO "art" aspect. And in fact are more flawed than "non-tancho" koi.
People outside of Japan are easily influenced if they "see" how cool tancho are.
In koi I have noticed that hi/beni is more likely to occur in greater quantity towards the head, and sumi is more likely to occur towards the tail. Tanchos are a sales strategy to get rid of the poorest patterned Gosanke. A tancho kohaku at least mimics the the Japanese Flag...Showa? and Sanke? What the hell are buyers doing? thinking?... NOT thinking.
"Those aren't poodles. They're Dobermans with afros."
If a lot of intelligent people think the same way is it a "personal opinion"? It's the intelligent opinion. Not even the fools that keep koi would ever go "Ew lookie! that's a dot head! Day is pwetty and deserve special consideration."
No. Breeders recognise they can BS the Japanese people in to "having the japanese flag in their koi ponds." and then a group of lemmings outside of Japan show how easily they can be influenced. Dot head koi...and then the dot heads are so highly elevated that even this really pathetic beni patterned showa gets considered as a Tancho Showa (maruten bs.).
No! people that start talking about dot head koi have been duped to an even greater degree than most koi hobbyists.
"Those aren't poodles. They're Dobermans with afros."
A personal opinion can be an intelligent one, and vice versa. I am not even sure where you got the idea that it has no "art" aspect. That's why I asked if they were your personal opinion. If not then do you appreciate certain things because people say you should or you appreciate them because they speak to your heart? The art aspect is highly subjective. What is most flawed to you may not be the case for the next person.
At the end of the day, buyers buy what they want to buy. Their money.
Kai, for Tancho Showa, the tancho doesn't have to be perfect. The sumi could end up complimenting the imperfection perfectly. But it's hard to see anything in your pictures.
Last edited by kevins2ooo; 01-25-2021 at 01:23 AM.
Just because you don't like a fish you consider it genetic flaw, got it...like I said, either that or you take whatever people tell you.