Doitsu

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The "mirror-scaled" oracular koi in the pond at Tom and Carl's house. (AWOM) The name is derived from the type-name of the original mirror-scale carp, a central European mutation imported into Japan from Germany in the early 1900's ("doitsu" being a Japanese form of deutsche).

Doitsu is male.

(See also Akagane: Koans: Showa.)