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    Thread: Tancho Showa - Please give critcs

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      Tancho Showa - Please give critcs

      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?
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      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.

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      Would probably need to know age, size, and a still picture to see the body conformation.

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      Quote Originally Posted by mplskoi View Post
      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.

      This is a valid point . The same reason why I hesitated .

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      The JAPANESE flag should give you some idea what a Tancho should look like.
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      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.
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      Quote Originally Posted by lukef View Post
      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.
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      Quote Originally Posted by coolwon View Post
      Maruten Showa

      Maruten Sanke.
      A rose by any other name can still be a gimmick.
      I used the basic term instead of adding a layer of crap to the load of BS around Tancho.
      "Those aren't poodles. They're Dobermans with afros."

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      Quote Originally Posted by lukef View Post
      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.
      I take that these are all personal opinions?

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      Quote Originally Posted by kevins2ooo View Post
      I take that these are all personal opinions?
      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.
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      Quote Originally Posted by lukef View Post
      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.
      You sound really angry. It's just a fish that some people happen to like. Chill out.

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      Quote Originally Posted by lukef View Post
      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.
      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.
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      America is a divided country over a dot headed Japanese fish.

      Well I never!
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      America is a divided country over a dot headed Japanese fish.

      Well I never!

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      Quote Originally Posted by jcardona1 View Post
      You sound really angry. It's just a fish that some people happen to like. Chill out.

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      Hobbyist being duped by a genetic flaw promoted as a positive trait worth adoration, and therefore $$$.
      That's not "just a fish."
      Then again..it is "just people."
      people are so easily separated from their money.
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      Quote Originally Posted by lukef View Post
      Hobbyist being duped by a genetic flaw promoted as a positive trait worth adoration, and therefore $$$.
      That's not "just a fish."
      Then again..it is "just people."
      people are so easily separated from their money.


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      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.

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