{"id":30526,"date":"2026-02-22T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30526"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:21:39","slug":"where-does-the-shiba-inu-hunting-dog-come-from-learn-about-the-japanese-breeds-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30526","title":{"rendered":"Where does the Shiba Inu hunting dog come from? Learn about the Japanese breed\u2019s birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/19\/93df2c77-ea97-49eb-b233-854f2f207119_7d55fbbc.jpg?itok=1CVBrGew&amp;v=1771494174\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shibas are popular worldwide as a breed of hunting dog from Japan, but for tourists deplaning at Hagi-Iwami Airport in Masuda, Shimane prefecture, the dozen or so canines greeting them are like little rock stars.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo cute!\u201d the visitors exclaim, smiling while petting and snapping photos of the alert, playful dogs known for their foxlike faces.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Their owners explain that the city is the breed\u2019s birthplace. Tracing their pedigrees back reveals that nearly all of these dogs descend from Ishi Go, a hunting dog often considered the father of the modern Shiba Inu breed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was the dedicated research of Mayumi Kawabe, 68, from Gotsu, Shimane, who, while grieving the loss of her beloved dog who died in September 2014, rediscovered this buried history and brought it to the world\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Concerned about his wife\u2019s long depression after the dog\u2019s death, Kawabe\u2019s husband showed her a clipping from a local newspaper introducing the rare San\u2019in Shiba Inu breed, which she had never heard of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3344003\/where-does-shiba-inu-hunting-dog-come-learn-about-japanese-breeds-birth?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shibas are popular worldwide as a breed of hunting dog from Japan, but for tourists deplaning at Hagi-Iwami Airport in Masuda, Shimane prefecture, the dozen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2183,16246,1004,7782,16245,1884,1379,16244],"class_list":["post-30526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-birth","tag-breeds","tag-dog","tag-hunting","tag-inu","tag-japanese","tag-learn","tag-shiba","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}