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100 1  Sherrill, Martha. 
245 10 Dog man :|ban uncommon life on a faraway mountain|h[Hoopla
       electronic resource] /|cMartha Sherrill. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2008. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
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511 1  Read by Laural Merlington. 
520    As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world 
       that Americans know very little about-the snow country of 
       Japan during World War II. In a mountain village, we meet 
       Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to
       break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on 
       his property.During the war, the magnificent and intensely
       loyal Japanese hunting dogs are donated to help the war 
       effort, eaten, or used to make fur vests for the military.
       By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are 
       only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of 
       the breed becomes Morie's passion and life, almost a 
       spiritual calling.Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever 
       changed. His life becomes radically unconventional-almost 
       preposterous-in ultra-ambitious, conformist Japan. For the
       dogs, Morie passes up promotions, bigger houses, and 
       prestigious engineering jobs in Tokyo. Instead, he raises 
       a family with his young wife, Kitako-a sheltered urban 
       sophisticate-in Japan's remote and forbidding snow 
       country.Their village is isolated, but interesting 
       characters are always dropping by-dog buddies, in-laws 
       from Tokyo, and a barefoot hunter who lives in the wild. 
       Due in part to Morie's perseverance and passion, the Akita
       breed strengthens and becomes wildly popular, sometimes 
       selling for millions of yen. Yet Morie won't sell his 
       spectacular dogs. He only likes to give them away.Morie 
       and Kitako remain in the snow country today, living in the
       traditional Japanese cottage they designed together more 
       than thirty years ago-with tatami mats, an overhanging 
       roof, a deep bathtub, and no central heat. At ninety-four 
       years old, Morie still raises and trains the Akita dogs 
       that have come to symbolize his life.In beautiful prose 
       that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the 
       Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it
       is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres 
       conformity-and what it means to live life in one's own way
       -while expertly revealing Japan and Japanese culture as 
       we've never seen it before. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Sawataishi, Morie. 
650  0 Akita dog|zJapan. 
650  0 Human-animal relationships|zJapan. 
700 1  Merlington, Laural.|4nrt 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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