More on samurai and hunting: here is a photo of a nineteenth century folding screen depicting samurai hunting wild boar at the foot of Mount Fuji. The description from the museum exhibition in Denmark:
Samurai on a wild boar hunt at the foot of Mount Fuji. Folding screen decorated by the Japanese court artist Kanô Tangensai Fujiwara Moritsune (1829-66). Ethnographic Collection, National Museum. The screen was presented to King William III of the Netherlands in 1860 by the ruling Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Iemochi.Also, it may be of interest to some grousers that you can still hunt wild boar in this country using samurai swords (Sporting? discuss). See:
Photo: Arnold Mikkelsen
www.a-wild-boar-hog-hunting-florida-guide-service.com
October 4, 2003
Wild boar sword hunters Jack Chuang (Davie, FL - e-mail: threeinchman@earthlink.net), non-hunter Jerry Chuang and Jason Jen bagged 3 wild hogs during a morning of wild boar hunting with Ron's Guide Service on October 4, 2003. Jack (above) killed a big sow hog with a samurai sword. Jason (below) killed 2 wild boar hogs with a samurai sword. They hunted the sugar cane fields in the town of Lakeport.
Now THAT looks like fun. Who's with me? Next year, pig sticking hog camp in Florida. Bring your 12 gauge sabers.
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would that be "shish kahog", Bob?
well, it ain't good to kill 'em. these cagey old hawgs, they get cagey you know, they got to be kept thinned down some.
You know, I had a dream the other night . . . "He's the one. He's the one! He's the one who killed our mama and our pappa and our little brother. He's the one." And oh, I felt so bad. I sword I'd never go hawg sticking again.
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