climate most conducive to successful culture; Koriyama, a small place near the ancient capital cities 

 of Nara and Kyoto, which also has excellent marketing facilities and a salubrious climate; and 

 Osaka, the Venice of Japan and the second city of the Empiie. Koriyama is the most important 

 center, and has aboul three hundred and fifty goldfish breeders whose annual output is upward 

 of ten million fish. At some establishments as main- as six hundred thousand are produced and 

 sold annually, while at others the yield may be only a tew thousands. 



Tokyo and Koriyama may be said to be the headquarters of two different schools of gold- 

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

 fashions in fish. The Tokyo school dominates the northeastern part of the Empire, and the 

 Koriyama school holds sway over the western part of the main island of Hondo and the islands 

 of Shikoku and Kyushu. 



