The Oranda Shishigashira 



Dutch Liox-head 



The oranda shishigashira, or Dutch lion-head, did not originate in Holland, but was so-called 

 according to Japanese custom because it was a new or strange production. It was first Ijred at 

 Kori_\-ania or Osaka about 1S40, and was produced bv criissing the ranchu and the ryukin. It 

 possesses the peculiar cephalic excrescences of the former and the flijwing draper}- of the latter, and is 

 [)erhaps the most striking t}-pe of goldfish, representing the highest de\'eliipment along the two lines 

 indicated. 



The body is le>s ele\-aled than in the ryukin and uKjre elongate than in the ranchu. As adult age 

 i- neared, a wart}' ma^- de\"elops on the head: this excrescence \-arie> in extent, sometimes coxx-ring 

 ilie entire top and sides of head, sometimes forming a caj> from the eyes backward. In some 

 specimens the normally broad head is still further broadened by the lateral growth, and the eves are 



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