Aokiya
Koi
Farm

Aokiya Koi Farm is in Katakai, Ojiya City, Niigata, and is listed by the Ojiya City Nishikigoi Fishery Cooperative as AO.Aokiya Co., Ltd. under Motoyoshi Aoki. In a Kodama Koi Farm interview, Haruo Aoki said he trained as a cook in Osaka, opened a restaurant in Katakai in 1970, and began breeding koi in 1972. He told Kodama that in 1993 he crossed a male Kumonryu with a female Kikusui and Kikokuryu appeared; Beni Kikokuryu came from the same Kumonryu-Kikusui line. Importers list the farm's specialties as Kikokuryu, Beni Kikokuryu, Goshiki, Lemon Hariwake, Kikusui and Doitsu varieties.