# forum needs a kawakami inu This is the next nihonken breed for us to all freak out about. http://72.14.247.132/translate\_c?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://pets.yahoo.co.jp/dog/zukan/dsearch\_detail.html%3Fsk%3D36%26si%3D1&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhhSySGj4OMpclJ-ePHzccSjzMzrZw That is some humorous translation right there. There are some… ## Thread In General · started by Kenshi · 13 replies - **Category:** [General](https://nihonken.org/community/c/general) - **Forum:** [Nihon Ken Forum](https://nihonken.org/community/) ## Kenshi · 2009-03-20T15:51:02.000Z This is the next nihonken breed for us to all freak out about. http://72.14.247.132/translate\_c?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://pets.yahoo.co.jp/dog/zukan/dsearch\_detail.html%3Fsk%3D36%26si%3D1&prev=hp&usg=ALkJrhhSySGj4OMpclJ-ePHzccSjzMzrZw That is some humorous translation right there. There are some posts on here with a lot of pictures of them. They are apparently not a living monument of Japan, but they are so hailed in Nagano prefecture. Look s like their sizes ranges to smaller than Shiba Inu. Other pics I have seen of them depict a very long, warm, luxorious coat, In these pics they look thicker than other Nihonken but not nearly as thick and long. ## Darwin67 · 2009-03-20T16:09:28.000Z Wow...that's a stunning dog! I also like that it's good with voicemail...I can never get mine to work right! ## KFontaine04 · 2009-03-20T16:16:11.000Z Cutie Pie! ## obuk · 2009-03-20T16:16:57.000Z LOL what is "voicemail fitness" ? ( i know it's directly translated but what is it supposed to mean?) ## Honey's mom · 2009-03-20T17:07:14.000Z LOL I like this part of the translation...... My husband is strong and mentally alert and faithful. また、番犬にも向いています。 The dog is also good. ## Kenshi · 2009-03-20T17:16:58.000Z Well you know, everybody has a celphone in asia, even dogs. ## *JackBurton* · 2009-03-20T17:35:49.000Z I did a quick google search and came up with this... http://www.japanartsandcrafts.com/kawakaiinu.html ## Sangmort (moderator) · 2009-03-20T18:07:15.000Z They remind me more of the western breeds.~ ## the_november_rain · 2009-03-20T18:27:36.000Z "This is the next nihonken breed for us to all freak out about." haha, that was funny! I thought that was humorous as well, Katie. For a second there.... So which dog is it? ## *JackBurton* · 2009-03-20T18:39:52.000Z I saw a similar post on nihonken.org back in 2007. I need to dig up the link. ## Nekopan · 2009-03-20T19:37:38.000Z http://www.nihonken.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=445 ## Kenshi · 2009-03-21T01:16:07.000Z Finnish Laphunds...that's what those pics in the other thread look like. The pics I found today look different. Well, interesting...natural monument of Nagano prefecture only. ## Stranger · 2009-03-21T16:26:40.000Z The picture in the first link to pets.yahoo.jp look rather different than the ones on the forum page--different build, shorter fur, other differences. These pages have more pics and some info.* japanese: personal page about a kawakami another page about a kawakami googlish: translated page another translated page and... japanese: article about kawakamis googlish: translated article They seem to have longer fur, generally, than the pets.yahoo.jp dog, but shorter than the fuzzy guys, except for the last photo in the article above in which they are very long -furred. My Japanese friend is adamant in her opinion that the dog in the pets.yahoo.jp page is a dead ringer for her beloved childhood dog, although she had never heard of a kawakami Inu before. just for fun, a youtube search for kawakamis http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=%E5%B7%9D%E4%B8%8A%E7%8A%AC&aq=f *Note: all links will open in a new tab or window ## Stranger · 2009-03-21T16:40:17.000Z One more page with a short history of the breed: http://komgarden.exblog.jp/i2/ translated article Apparently the breed was thought extinct after the war, but was revived with great effort after a few were identified in remote rural areas. Some dogs of other breeds were used to offset the dangers of inbreeding from the few surviving Kawakamis.* *disclaimer: I don't know how to read Japanese, this is highly interpretive and another http://www.vill.kawakami.nagano.jp/kawakamiken/ translated article --- **Navigate:** [Forum home](https://nihonken.org/community/?format=md) · [Sitemap](https://nihonken.org/community/sitemap.xml)