{
  "breeder": "Masaharu Tarumi",
  "region": "Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan",
  "preceding_initial_first_fifty_unchanged": 50,
  "tarumi_initial": 11,
  "tarumi_second_expansion": 20,
  "archive_audit_additions": 12,
  "tarumi_documentary_total": 43,
  "scope": "Mix of original named selections, documented descendants, and experimental programs; not all novel registered genetic strains.",
  "records": [
    {
      "name": "Ayanishiki",
      "japanese": "綾錦",
      "scope": "Original breeder-attributed named variety",
      "history": "2017 breeder visit names Tarumi as creator, and 2017 Ehime exhibition records his Ayanishiki as a red-white ornamental line",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17",
        "show17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Exact original founding fish and creator release year are not published",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        },
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Ehime breeder exhibition",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2657"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gokubeni Nishiki",
      "japanese": "極紅錦",
      "scope": "Original breeder-attributed named variety",
      "history": "2017 publisher interview lists Gokubeni Nishiki among Tarumi's earlier completed named varieties",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Source does not specify the parent pairing, trait diagnosis or formal first commercial launch",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sekito Nishiki",
      "japanese": "赤兎錦",
      "scope": "Original breeder-attributed selected line",
      "history": "Publisher credits Tarumi with a nontransparent tricolor line developed from Kiyohara Hikari Special-related fish and further nontransparent-scale crossing; later maintained by other breeders",
      "source_keys": [
        "azuma17",
        "research19"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Kiyohara created an earlier input line; later maintaining breeders are not all original creators",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Sekito Nishiki direct breeder history",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/3162"
        },
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mebina Exterior Light",
      "japanese": "女雛体外光",
      "scope": "Documented later selected form",
      "history": "2017 first-hand reporting describes Tarumi selecting Mebina offspring for dorsal exterior reflection after deep persimmon-orange expression",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17",
        "show17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Do not treat the reported selected form as an unrelated original founder line or a second invention of Mebina",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        },
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Ehime breeder exhibition",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2657"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Yozakura × Mebina",
      "japanese": "夜桜×女雛",
      "scope": "Unreleased or unnamed breeder cross program",
      "history": "2017 breeder-site visit reports a Yozakura × Mebina working cross in tanks after Tarumi moved beyond finished Yozakura stock",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "No official stabilized cultivar title, founder pair ID, published inheritance ratios or separate release verified",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mebina × Fuga Swallow",
      "japanese": "女雛×風雅",
      "scope": "Unreleased or unnamed breeder cross program",
      "history": "2017 first-hand visit documents a Mebina × Fuga Swallow working cross with partial extended fin rays",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Swallow fin influence does not establish Matsui full-fin elongation or a named new variety",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kizakura Lame Selection",
      "japanese": "黄桜ラメ選別",
      "scope": "Documented working selected form",
      "history": "2017 visit describes Kizakura crossed or selected to increase lame-reflecting scales; source photos show multiple variants",
      "source_keys": [
        "visit17"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Distinct from claiming every later lame fish is the same genetic stock",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Uroko Ketto Scale-reflection Program",
      "japanese": "鱗血統",
      "scope": "Original breeder trait-research program",
      "history": "2019 on-farm report calls individually rimmed continuous reflective dorsal scales Uroko Ketto as distinct from solid exterior-light shine",
      "source_keys": [
        "research19"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "This is a breeding/phenotype program description, not a genetically proven new allele or universally registered strain",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hire-hikari Fin-reflection Program",
      "japanese": "ヒレ光血統",
      "scope": "Original breeder trait-research program",
      "history": "2019 on-farm report describes selection for Miyuki-like reflection on pectoral, pelvic, anal, caudal and dorsal fins, initially advanced separately from Uroko Ketto",
      "source_keys": [
        "research19"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Fin reflection and scale reflection were separate work streams, not verified to be one fixed inheritance unit",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Aurora-type Long Fin",
      "japanese": "オーロラ系ロングフィン",
      "scope": "Working fin-form selection",
      "history": "2019 original site report illustrates Tarumi Aurora longfin fish and fin-reflection selection trials",
      "source_keys": [
        "research19"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Source does not disclose a named direct fish mating or independent retail variety release",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Albino Uroko / Fin-reflection Program",
      "japanese": "鱗血統ヒレ光アルビノ",
      "scope": "Experimental combined trait program",
      "history": "2019 visit describes albino forms of the Uroko and fin-light program receiving focused breeding attention",
      "source_keys": [
        "research19"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "No published segregation study, fixation generation, separate retail naming or sexed founder pair verified",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Yozakura Gold Selection",
      "japanese": "夜桜ゴールド",
      "scope": "Documented downstream color selection",
      "history": "2021 published followup describes a gold-toned Yozakura variant being maintained in a breeding group",
      "source_keys": [
        "yozakura21"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "Publisher's selected fish do not by themselves establish that Tarumi originally created the gold downstream form",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pisces, 2021 Yozakura Gold retained broodstock",
          "url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/19820"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "new_competition_results": [
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "event": "1st All-Japan Improved Medaka Championship",
      "category": "Mariage longfin, fin elongation emphasis",
      "entrant": "Masaharu Tarumi",
      "result": "2nd place",
      "named_fish": "Not named in organizer results",
      "source": "champ23",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/22337"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "event": "1st All-Japan Improved Medaka Championship",
      "category": "Morpho-type, subtype expression",
      "entrant": "Masaharu Tarumi",
      "result": "Aqua Life special award",
      "named_fish": "Not named in organizer results",
      "source": "champ23",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/22337"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "event": "1st All-Japan Improved Medaka Championship",
      "category": "Morpho-type, subtype expression",
      "entrant": "Masaharu Tarumi",
      "result": "Kiyohara Hikaru special award",
      "named_fish": "Not named in organizer results",
      "source": "champ23",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/22337"
    }
  ],
  "existing_competition_prizes_unchanged": 2,
  "rights_audit": [
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2017 Tarumi breeder visit and original crosses",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2195",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2017 Ehime breeder exhibition",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/2657",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2017 Sekito Nishiki direct breeder history",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/3162",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2019 on-site Uroko and fin-light research",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/12165",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2021 Yozakura Gold retained broodstock",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/19820",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces, 2018 Medaka Hyakka volume 5 original Kirameki",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/8650",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "First All-Japan Improved Medaka Championship, full 2023 results",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/22337",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "Pisces Medaka AG Vol.07, breeding practice and Fromage family",
      "source_url": "https://piscesbook.com/archives/24587",
      "photograph_rehosting": "Not licensed or not demonstrated; do not copy",
      "permitted_in_site": "Source attribution and outbound links only"
    }
  ],
  "research_gaps": [
    "Complete original Tarumi lifetime cultivar list is not independently certified.",
    "Unpublished individual broodstock IDs, year-by-year crossing logs and laboratory genotype cannot be inferred.",
    "Contest rankings do not identify every entrant's strain; unnamed fish stay unnamed.",
    "2026 publisher breeding advice is editorial reporting, not a direct verbatim quote by Tarumi.",
    "No photographic license granted to Aquapedia has been verified."
  ]
}