Passionate hobbyists join clubs, share their knowledge and help each other with their koi. Collecting koi has become a social hobby. They are sold in many pet aquarium shops, with higher-quality fish available from specialist dealers. The hobby of keeping koi eventually spread worldwide. The number of varieties continued to grow, and repeated cross-breeding gave rise to more flashy varieties, such as Kōhaku, Taishō Sanshoku and Shōwa Sanshoku. From that time, interest in koi spread throughout Japan. The outside world was unaware of the development of color variations in Japanese koi until 1914 when the Niigata koi were exhibited at an annual exposition in Tokyo. From this original handful of koi varieties, all other Nishikigoi varieties were bred, with the exception of the Ogon variety (single-colored, metallic koi), which was developed relatively recently. Later, a yellow-based Ki utsuri variety was born. The Sarasa variety, with a red on white pattern, was created around 1830. Selective breeding gave rise first to red carp, then to pale blue Asagi and white, red, and yellow Bekkou. The systematic breeding of ornamental Amur carp began in the 1820s, in Ojiya and Yamakoshi in the Niigata Prefecture (located on the northeastern coast of Honshu) in Japan. Amur carp have been aquacultured as a food fish at least as long ago as the fifth century BC in China. haematopterus), but recent authorities treat it as a separate species under the name C. Amur carp were previously identified as a subspecies of the common carp (as C. The Amur carp ( Cyprinus rubrofuscus) is a member of the cyprinid family species complex native to East Asia. Carp were first bred for color mutations in China more than a thousand years ago, where selective breeding of colored varieties led to the development of the goldfish ( Carassius auratus). According to the Nihon shoki, it is recorded that Emperor Keikō praised colored carp in a pond in the Mino region in 94 and that Emperor Suiko saw them in the garden of Soga no Umako's residence in 620. The oldest mention of colored carp in Japan is found in the Japanese history book Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) completed in 720. Chinese Jin Dynasty (fourth century AD) texts mentioned carp of various colors. Natural color mutations of these carp would have occurred across all populations. Carp are coldwater fish, and their ability to survive and adapt to many climates and water conditions allowed the domesticated species to be propagated to many new locations, including Japan. Various carp species were originally domesticated in China, where they were used as food fish. The most popular category of koi is the Gosanke, which is made up of the Kōhaku, Taishō Sanshoku and Shōwa Sanshoku varieties.Ĭarp are a large group of fish originally found in Central Europe and Asia. Some of the major colors are white, black, red, orange, yellow, blue, brown and cream, besides metallic shades like gold and silver-white ('platinum') scales. Several varieties are recognized by the Japanese, distinguished by coloration, patterning, and scalation. There are many varieties of ornamental koi, originating from breeding that began in Niigata, Japan in the early 19th century. rubrofuscus kept for ornamental purposes. Koi is an informal name for the colored variants of C. Koi ( 鯉, English: / ˈ k ɔɪ/, Japanese: ), or more specifically nishikigoi ( 錦鯉, Japanese:, literally " brocaded carp"), are colored varieties of the Amur carp ( Cyprinus rubrofuscus) that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens. Several koi swim around in a pond in Japan.
0 kommentar(er)
