climate most conducive to successful culture; Koriyama, a small ])lace near the ancient cajjital cities 

 of Nara and K\'ot(). which als(} has excellent marketing facilities and a salubrious climate; and 

 Osaka, the \'enice nf japan and the second citv of the Enipiie. Kori\ania is the most important 

 center, and has alxjut three hundred and hftv goldfish breeders wh'ise annual iiutput is upward 

 I if ten million fish. At some establishments as manv as si.x hundred thousand are produced and 

 sold annualh', while at mhers the yield may l)e duIx" a few thousands. 



Tokyo and Korivania may be said to be the head(|uarters of two different schools of gold- 

 fish culture, with ditifereni breeding methods, different standards of excellence, and different 

 fashions in lish. The Tokyo sclmol dominates the northeastern part of the Empire, and the 

 Koriyama school holds sway o\-er the western part of the main island of Hondo and the islands 

 of Shikoku and Kyushu. 



