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On top of the Tosai he has around 10-15,000 Nisai, People who go to his facility might start to notice more-
2-3,000 Sansai and from 4 year old to Jumbo Koi about and-more Bonsai around as he has just started to collect
2,000. These are huge numbers of Koi to be dealing them as a hobby. His favourite variety is Showa and his
with, he explains “he has 5 or is it 6 (he’s not sure, advice to Koi hobbyists is to learn how to correctly feed
smiling) Koi houses and including himself and his wife your Koi throughout the year as this will improve growth
Saori he has 5 employees to help with the large amount and keep your Koi healthy. Good advice from a man who
of work all this creates”. The number of mud ponds has nearly 200,000 Koi to look after.
required to hold all these Koi he thinks he has about
100 Tosai ponds, 50 Nisai and 50 ponds for older Koi I have watched Hironori grow up from a young boy to
which all need daily looking after. He even admits that the smiling hard working man that he is today. Those
sometimes in autumn he forgets to harvest some of his early years when working with his father and brother
have made him disciplined and dedicated in wanting to
ponds. Personally, I have seen him and helped him
produce large numbers of quality Koi, now with his wife
unload Koi from a harvest well into December when it’s
Saori they have become a great team in both producing
snowing hard and by his side working away with him is
his wife. Koi and making everyone welcome who steps into their
Koi house. Keep on smiling Hironori!
Another example of why they will always be popular is
their willingness to help, even last autumn (2017) we at For more information on Martin Symonds, Rene Villela
and Japan Koi Export go to www.japankoiexport.com or
JKX had customers who arrived early in October to buy
www.exclusivejapanesekoi.com or
Koi but it was so early that no breeders had started
harvesting their quality Koi, Rene took them to see The main Maruhiro Show email info@japankoiexport.com and you can
Pond with so many varieties also follow them on Facebook
Hironori to see if they had any but he did not. Hironori
of high quality Koi. www.facebook.com/japankoiexport
then suggested they go right then to harvest a pond of
Nisai for them to look at, our customers were so
grateful and selected some great Koi.
At the height of the season there are so many Koi in his
fish houses and he caters for all grades of Koi, and you
have to spend a great deal of time looking for his high
quality Koi amongst his 1000’s of Koi, but it is well
worth it. In 2016 was the first year he put his own Koi
into the All Japan Koi Show. He entered 11 Koi and out
of these 10 won prizes, top prize being in the Botan
with a 3 year old Hi Utsuri, he hopes to enter more as
the years go on.
As with so many Koi breeders here now in Niigata his
business is 70% export and 30% in Japan, he feels that
his best Koi are split 50/50 between foreign customers
Three high quality Maruhiro
Showas with potential for and Japanese customers. He has a huge following of
the future. loyal customers from Europe (and particularly Holland)
and I would say nearly everyday I pass his facility
during the main buying season, foreign customers are
there in numbers selecting his Koi.
He hasn’t travelled much as he has no time and has
only been to Hawaii, and that was for his honeymoon.
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