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Always in Hasselt Japanese garden, one being or live the carpi Koïs, people can touch them, these carps come towards you. The Koï carpi which we know today with these multitudes of colour occurred in the basins of irrigation of rice plantations in the North-West of Japan. Wild carps of black color were the predecessors of Koïs, intended to decorate the dishes low in proteins of the Japanese rice growers! The first changes, caused by a constant consanginity in these small closed basins, were observed at the beginning of the 19th century. They were especially changes in the red, the yellow and the plain white. From there one knows the results! One started to cross the colors and even one crossed Koï Japanese women with German carps to obtain from Koïs without scales (DOÏTSU). Japanese almost made of it a worship, they see in Koïs a door happiness, a sign of force and of the oldest longevity because counts already more than 200 springs.... Colors reds AKA (basic color) HI (red tasks) Beni (red orange basic) White SHIRO Brown CHA Black KARASU ("corbel" basic color) SUMI (black tasks) Yellow KI

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  • Copyright: Rosa Criminisi (Rosa) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 583 W: 123 N: 1033] (4589)
  • Genre: Places
  • Medium: Color
  • Date Taken: 2007-05-03
  • Categories: Nature
  • Exposure: f/4.8, 1/1250 seconds
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  • Photo Version: Original Version
  • Date Submitted: 2007-05-09 17:55
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