ABSTRACT
Japan is less bountifully supplied with beasts, whether wild or tame, than almost any. other country. Wild ones are scarce, owing to the small quantity of uncultivated ground. Domestic animals are not plentiful, because the Buddhist doctrine of transmigration prohibits the eating of meat; so the ground is given up to vegetables and not to pasture. Oarnivorolls animals are confined to the bear, wolf, racoon, fox, marten, and badger.
