Excerpt from Dogs of China Japan, in Nature and Art China and Japan, their people and their customs, have lured the foreigner in his thousands to the making of

Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and inf

This volume gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. T

Small, silent dogs cherished by the Japanese Emperor, the Japanese Chin is now a rare breed. The Emperor had these lapdogs guarded and they were fed the finest