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Here is to a happy new year, wishing it will be a great one for all AKIHO members across the world!
Furthermore, the entry form for the 10th European Hozonkai Championship has just been put online, which can be found here.
We look forward to receiving your entries.
The announcement for AKIHO Europe’s 2020 exhibition has just been made. For more information, please visit this page.
Last Sunday the 9th European Hozonkai Championship—official AHIKO exhibition—took place in Givoletto, Torino, Italy. We want to thank everybody for their participation and making it such an enjoyable event. Furthermore, a special word of gratitude goes out to EGO Tadayoshi and TSUTSUI Nobuji, for giving us their skilled judgement and sharing their expertise at the seminar about “Akita Inu Structure”.
For a full details on rankings, please visit the results page, and for all things visual, please visit the photo & video page.
Striving to further improve this special event, we hope to see you at our future exhibitions! 🇯🇵🐕🇪🇺👍
P.S. Some people have asked about the exhibition’s edition number. In the history of the European Hozonkai Championship, this was the 9th edition, out of which 7 were official AKIHO exhibitions, hence the different numbering.
Entries for the 9th European Hozonkai Championship have been closed. The exhibition wil have exhibitors from all over Europe, including (in alphabetical order) Belgium, Croatia, Czech, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Swiss.
We are looking forward to a great exhibition and seeing all of you soon!
As an official Akita Inu Hozonkai exhibition, the 9th Europe Hozonkai Championship is an event that closely follows AKIHO tradition.
This means, it is desired to manipulate or influence the dog as little as possible. In other words, showing Akita Inu by tachikomi (naturally standing & while keeping the leash up) and therefore not by manually stacking it by hand or baiting it with snacks / squeaky toys, et cetera.
As this way of handling Akita Inu is not something everybody in Europe is fully accustomed to, hence this small reminder before the exhibition takes place.
While today the final week of entry for the 9th European Hozonkai Championship starts—closing date: March 31st—it is our pleasure to inform you that this year’s benkyoukai (seminar) will focus on the structure of the Akita Inu, handling subjects like size, angulation and proportions.
The seminar, which will be held the day before the show by AKIHO’s respected Ego Tadayoshi and Tsutsui Nobuji, is your chance to learn the finer details about the breed, so be sure not to miss it!
Judged by AKIHO’s respected EGO Tadayoshi and TSUTSUI Nobuji, the 9th European Hozonkai Championship will take place in about one month away from now. The entry deadline is March 31st.
We look forward seeing all of you there!
The announcement for AKIHO Europe’s 2019 exhibition has just been made. For more information, please visit this page.
The results have been posted in Japanese AKIHO style. For those looking for full details about the winners, please view the PDF, which is linked to on the same page. Please find them all here.
Congratulations to all winners!
We want to thank everybody for their participation and making it such an enjoyable event. Also, a special word of gratitude goes out to SAITOU Akira (AKIHO Director of Judging) and MUIRA Kousei (AKIHO Judge) for flying in from Japan to give us their skilled judgement at the exhibition and shared expertise at the seminar about the Akita Inu brindle.
Full coverage with results, pictures and videos will be posted this week and we hope to see you again at one of our exhibitions in 2019! 🇯🇵🐕🇪🇺👍
