Found Kai Ken In Dog Encyclopedia!
This is very random, but I was at Petsmart flipping through a random dog breed book and the pages fell open to a page with Kishu Ken on it! I thought "no way" and flipped back a few pages and sure enough, the Kai Ken was in there! I've never seen them listed in a book before and wanted to share with you all. Sorry if someone else has brought up a similar topic, a quick search didn't turn anything up.
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A dog breed book I have here put the kai into it's "Hounds" chapter, with Hokkaido and Akita in the "working dogs" chapter, no Kishu or Shikoku, and Shiba in "Non-sporting" but I was impressed they had kai at all.
I'll see if I can find a link to the dog book my friend bought that has all the Nihon Ken in it. The photographer was Japanese, so that's probably why it has them all in it! It's my favorite dog book. It also has the CO in it!
I don't have it anymore, unfortunately. I used it so much it fell apart completely and my parents tossed it.
I had one that I used when I was a groomer... helped me with pricing when a strange looking mixed breed came in. It fell apart and I had to chunk it.... I would love to make copies of the bed description for my dogs and just hand those out when people ask about them.
Canine Lexicon by Andrew De Prisco and James B. Johnson
March 1, 1993
The New Encyclopedia of the Dog by Bruce Fogle
September 1, 2000
Japanese Breeds by Michiko Chiba
September 1, 2003