Ginchika Smokes & Silvers

Ginchika Silvers & Smokes

In 1997, with the help of my friend Yumi Kobayashi, I managed to import two male kittens from the streets of Japan to expand my breeding program. I thought I was getting a blue and white and a solid black. The solid black turned out to be a black smoke! The gene that causes a black cat to have silver roots and a brown tabby cat to be a silver tabby is a dominant gene. The expression of this gene hasn't been seen in the North American Japanese Bobtail gene pool since the 1970s.

The blue and white, Aozora of Janipurr (Jake), eventually went to live with Beth Graham in Virginia.The smoke, Shiranui of Janipurr (Elwood), stayed at Janipurr and became the basis for the new revival in smokes and silvers in North America.

CH Ginchika Must Be Smokin!
Red Silver Tabby Male
Image copyright 2000 Chanan Photography

GRC Ginchika Gin Tora of Rockinashi
Silver Tabby and White Male
Image copyright 2000 Mark McCullough

Ginchika is proud to have produced CFA's first Silver Tabby Grand Champion: GRC Ginchika Gin Tora of Rockinashi, and the first two Silver Patterned Mi-ke Grands: GRC Ginchika Xquisite in Silver and her daughter, GRC,RW Ginchika Fuzakeru of Rockinashi.

SGC, RW Janipurr's Pikachu of QT
Black Smoke and White Male
Image copyright 2000 Jim Brown Photography

Elwood sired a smoke tortie female named Candy (Janipurr's CanUSmellSmoke?) and a red smoke and white male named Eri (Janipurr's Erito Nakama). Then he went to live with Nikki Crandall-Seibert in Illinois to be bred to her tabby and white girls. On December 27th, 1999, Nikki and I co-registered a cattery name, Ginchika (which means Silver Underground), to share the new silver and smoke kittens we were producing. Thus, Ginchika Japanese Bobtails was born!

CH Ginchika Pieces of Silver of DeeKay &
GP Ginchika Puff of Smoke
Silver Tabby and White Male & Black Smoke and White Neuter
Image copyright 2000 Paradox Photography

I hope you enjoy the photos on this page. We hope to see many more silver and smoke Grands in the future!

GRC Ginchika Xquisite in Silver
Silver Patterned Mi-ke (Silver Torbie and White) Female
Image copyright 2001 Chanan Photography

GRC,RW Ginchika Fuzakeru of Rockinashi
Silver Patterned Mi-ke
(Silver Torbie and White) Female
Image copyright 2002 Chanan Photography

GRC Ginchika Lovely in Silver
Silver Patterned Mi-ke
(Silver Torbie and White) Female
Image copyright 2004 Chanan Photography

GRC Ginchika Okonomiyaki
Silver Tabby and White Female
Image copyright 2005 Chanan Photography

Ginchika Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
Silver Tabby and White odd-eye Male
Image copyright 2010 Johnson Photography

Updated 21 March 2010