Description
English: Mountain dog on Dejima. Villeneuve’s note, in Dutch, states that because the animal was afflicted with ulcers and never stood up, he could only draw the Yamainu lying down. Hence the proportions seem to be somewhat distorted, particularly the legs.- Funk (2015)
Date 1826-1830
Source Funk, H. (2015), "A re-examination of C. J. Temminck's sources for his descriptions of the extinct Japanese wolf", Archives of natural history, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp. 51-65, ISSN 0260-9541
Author Carl Hubert de Villeneuve
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamainu_-_Carl_Hubert_de_Villeneuve.png

The Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It is also known as the Honshu wolf.