Shubunkin Shubunkin The Shubunkin was created by Yoshigoro Akiyama （, by crossing Calico telescope eye with a Comet goldfish and a Common goldfish. Shubunkins are similar to the common goldfish and comet goldfish in appearance. They were first bred in Japan, from mutations in telescope eye goldfish (Demekins) "c." 1900. They have streamlined bodies with well-developed and even fins. However, the Shubunkins are calico goldfish; they possess nacreous scales (an intermediate between metallic and transparent scales that are pearly in appearance). The overlapping patches of red, white, blue, grey and black (along with dark speckles) normally extend to the finnage of
A Kind of Loving A Kind of Loving A Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. It has also been translated into a film of the same name, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. "A Kind of Loving" was the first of a trilogy, published over the course of sixteen years, that followed hero Vic Brown through marriage, divorce and a move from the mining town of Cressley to London. The other two parts are "The Watchers on the Shore" and "The Right True End". The story presents us to Vic Brown, a young working