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Goshiki 五色
Goshiki has fundamentally the same requirements for Hi patter as Kohaku. There...
Gosanke 御三家
The three major Japanese Nishikigoi varieties, Kohaku, Sanke and Showa
Fushusho 浮腫症
Dropsy
Fukurin 覆輪
The fan-shaped edges of the scales. Originally fukurin is the term to describe...
Doitsugoi ドイツ鯉
Koi that are not fully scaled and usually with a row of scales along each...
Dan Moyo 段模様
Stepped pattern
Beni 紅
Deep red
Beni Kikokuryu 紅輝黒竜
Kikokuryu with hi patches, produced from crossing a female Kikusui with a male...
Beni Kumonryu 紅九紋竜
Kumonryu with red patterns produced by mating Kumonryu with Doitsu Kohaku
Benigoi 紅鯉
Red Nishikigoi. Benigoi has deeper red than Higoi
Bouzu 坊主
Literary means bold head. It indicates Nishikigoi has no patches on the head...
Budogoromo 葡萄衣
Nishikigoi with koromo scaled pattern on hi plates. Its reddish brown color...
