A lot of snow fell over night and we wondered if we were going to able to get up in to the mountains. so we started off lower down at marudo, nothing was bought this time but worth the visit to see the new fish house.

next we headed further up and back to masaki as one of the party wanted a price on a shiro he saw yesterday. the koi was bowled and a price given which is now being thought on. another member of the party bowled up two very good showa and these were bought .

We where then taken down to the family house and given refreshments .

The family shrine

we then went off to izumiya, as is normal there is no one there but you are more then welcome to have a look around

two of his fighting bulls

next was lunch toru does like his food! after which we went up to Aoke where a mixed bowl of koi were bought.

we stopped off at Dainichi and had alook at his wonderful koi before moving on to marasuka where we bought two gin rin kohaku one of which was for an order .

finally we stopped off at hirasawa although it was getting dark we got some prices on some koi and are going back tomorrow to pick some.