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For centuries in the days before our understanding of chemistry there was the search for a process that would turn some common metal into gold. Charlatans for centuries sought deprive the wealthy of their riches by promising the secret that would make any man abundantly rich.
The amazing story of a few simple fisherman in Japan who learned how to turn a very drab looking fish that was almost worthless into what is now a world-wide trade of very expensive fish. It is hard to imagine that anyone would pay scores of thousands of dollars and in some cases even hundreds of thousands of dollars for one single fish!
Today in the world of Koi there are real treasures and some are willing to pay for them. In a sense these simple fishermen achieved what charlatans for centuries were never able to achieve, turn a simple fish into gold!
Early Koi History – Carp in China
The name Koi is simply the Japanese word for ‘Carp’. The real history of Koi or Carp is lost in the mists of legend but it is believed that Koi had their beginnings in an area that today we would call Iran, history would call Persia. (more…)
