Recently a similar exhibition has been started in Osaka, where somewhat different criteria 

 prevail. Thus, while a variegated ranchu is not regarded with favor in Tokyo, a fish with fine red 

 and white mottlings and a bright red head is very popular in Osaka. 



A noteworthy goldfish exhibit at the city of Sakai, held in connection with the great National 

 Exposition at Osaka, was visited by the author. The choice fish, displayed in a long series of very 

 shallow concrete ponds, were numerous as to individuals and represented most of the varieties known 

 at that time. Those most in evidence and with particularly fine examples were the maruko, the 

 oranda, and the ryukin. One pair of marukos four years old and weighing probably half a pound 

 apiece was valued at $50; the fish were white, with a few blood red blotches. Other specimens of 

 superior breed had a nearly uniform golden body and red head. A beautiful type of ryukin was white, 

 with the center of each scale red. Some large orandas 4 years old, with a conspicuous rounded mass 

 of pink warts on the top of the head, Avere of the tokin or capped form; others were rich, velvety 

 black, with a golden yellow suffusion on the under parts. Among the demekins were some compar- 

 atively large fish with small black blotches irregularly covering" the led and white body color. 



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The goldfish industry is so completely eclipsed by numerous other branches of the fisheries that 

 the Japanese themselves do not attach to it a great deal of importance commercially, and exclude it 

 from the very thorough fishery statistics that are collected and published under government auspices. 

 Therefore, it is not possible to present any figures showing the general extent of the business. In 

 the Koriyama district at the time of the author's visit the norma! annual goldfish crop was estimated 

 at 10,000,000 fish. It is likely that the yearly production and sale of goldfish in the whole of 



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