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Canis hodophilax
カニス・ホドフィラックス

Pen and ink on paper
紙にペン、インク
7x13cm, 2008

Canis hodophilax is a nomenclature for Japanese Wolf which was extinguished in about 1905 and currently I'm researching this animal from cultural and biological sights.
This dessin is done in National Science Museum, Ueno, Tokyo (I'd stood in front of the skeleton for at least 4 hours to finish this sketch).

However...
Japanese Wolf were called ohkami (ohkuchi-no-makami = True god with big mouth) or oinu (=Grand dog) because they eat deers and wild boars who lay farmland waste. There are lot of old tales saying such as Japanese even held celemony when they learned ohkami bared her cub in mountain forest.

It is said the reason why such a sacred existance were threatened to extermination was some deseases among them. Distemper and rabies from European imported dogs spreaded among wolves and feared Japanese people started to kill them with gun, which was becoming popular in Japan.

Description
Canis hodophilax
カニス・ホドフィラックス

Pen and ink on paper
紙にペン、インク
7x13cm, 2008

Canis hodophilax is a nomenclature for Japanese Wolf which was extinguished in about 1905 and currently I'm researching this animal from cultural and biological sights.
This dessin is done in National Science Museum, Ueno, Tokyo (I'd stood in front of the skeleton for at least 4 hours to finish this sketch).

However...
Japanese Wolf were called ohkami (ohkuchi-no-makami = True god with big mouth) or oinu (=Grand dog) because they eat deers and wild boars who lay farmland waste. There are lot of old tales saying such as Japanese even held celemony when they learned ohkami bared her cub in mountain forest.

It is said the reason why such a sacred existance were threatened to extermination was some deseases among them. Distemper and rabies from European imported dogs spreaded among wolves and feared Japanese people started to kill them with gun, which was becoming popular in Japan.