Kazuaki

Kazuaki is one of the named foundation dams of Chris Walker's Westholme importation, the ~84 black females brought from ET Japan Company in Hokkaido during 1997 and 1998. The shipment was deliberately diverse — roughly 44 Fujiyoshi, 28 Kedaka (eleven of them Hongen-registered, Japan's highest ranking) and 12 Tajiri — chosen to add milk, frame and size alongside marbling, and paired with the founding bulls Hirashige-Tayasu, Itomoritaka and Kitateruyasu Doi. Kazuaki is documented among the dams that bred on in Australia. Her individual pedigree and strain are not published in the accessible sources. She helped found the herd now operated as Westholme by the Australian Agricultural Company.