In medieval Europe boar-hunting was a favourite sport of the nobility, owing to the toughness, cunning, and sheer aggression of the boar; hunting such prey was considered excellent training for warriors. I don't know if Japan has a similar tradition?
Perhaps invest in a good boar-spear, is what I'm getting at.
I'll forgive your hate of spiders only because you write so well. I love spiders (I know, I'm weird...), at least the local varieties.
My eldest son, he's even weirder than me: when he sees a cockroach, he captures it, with his bare hands, and releases it into the wild (i.e. chucks it out of the window).
Inoshishi were indelibly etched on my brain when I first saw Tampopo by Juzo Itami (great film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvu_2pwtFu8
Fantastic movie. Yet I have no memory of this scene!!
In medieval Europe boar-hunting was a favourite sport of the nobility, owing to the toughness, cunning, and sheer aggression of the boar; hunting such prey was considered excellent training for warriors. I don't know if Japan has a similar tradition?
Perhaps invest in a good boar-spear, is what I'm getting at.
A spear. Now someone tells me!!!
Thanks for reading.
Yes stay away with the doggy near those bushes .....
And wear body armor...
Brilliant writing! And that whippet, he can RUN!!
This is so true. I pray that when I drop the lead he actually runs though--he'd make the inoshishi look like a cripple.
But this weird whippet won't leave my side. He's supposed to tear across countryside the moment he senses slack in the line.
I’ve seen them in my garden and given up trying to grow potatoes and peanuts because of them.
In Tampopo they say inoshishi love sweet yams.
I'll forgive your hate of spiders only because you write so well. I love spiders (I know, I'm weird...), at least the local varieties.
My eldest son, he's even weirder than me: when he sees a cockroach, he captures it, with his bare hands, and releases it into the wild (i.e. chucks it out of the window).
Oh my LORD. (Has massive coronary)