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Anyone got a tail docker? 😉

What is this fifth leg business? Anyone can see it has two long legs on one side and two short ones on the other - obviously lives on the side of a steep mountain and can't therefore walk anti clockwise or it would fall down the mountain.🤪

PS you will note the long tails of the Sidehill Gouger and Dahu 

http://mythologicalbeastiesandco.blogspot.com/2010/09/sidehill-gouger.html

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😂

I don't why the conclusion is goat.

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If that is a goat on the tsuba it was a very bad artist.

 

BAKUMATSUYA • A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings by Ooka  Shunboku (Illustrated Japanese books ) • Rare books & photos of Japan

 

That animal on the tsuba shows an Japanese Ox - I'm 100% sure.

But ok. Everybody should think what he wanted to see.

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This motif is referred to as "oxen released to the peach orchard" (桃林放牛図) or "returning horses, releasing oxen" (帰馬放牛).

 

It goes back to the legend when King Wu of Zhou defeated the Yin, he returned the war horses to the place they were taken from and released the oxen, who had carried war material, to the peach orchard. That way, he was demonstrating the population that the war was over, for good, as horses and oxen for war would never be needed again.

 

 

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