Tosa INU

Tosa Inu, Japanese dog originally bred for the matches, also known as dog sumo. The principles of both types of sumo wrestling, the dog and human, are essentially the same win the one who remains the feet firmly on the ground.

History

According to available sources to support dog fighting samurai fighting mood. I 11 century, when these fighters were members of the imperial palace guard, developed their culture, great emphasis on physical prowess and his own moral principles, which mainly vyzdvihovali good works against the weaker, contempt of death in the fight and unconditional loyalty to the emperor.

The first sumo matches were determined for the selected Samurai. Zapasnici sumo to weigh more than 100 kilograms and will be skilful enough to the enemy during the struggle to impress the country and their own weight to keep it in stationary position so that they could not stand. Terms of dog fights followed the rules of the human. Most fought the predetermined period of only two dogs,who had different belts on the neck for easier distinction. Matches took place in the octagonal arena with a diameter of 36 meters and won the dog, which pritiskl opponent to the ground so that it made it impossible to move. The fight was interrupted, was injured when one of the dogs, and he was disqualified by the time Kousal, or even expressed fear - whether barking, knucenim or ustoupenim from the enemy at a distance of more than three steps. Japanese preference with dog fighting style and techniques are the matches in the true sense and have nothing to do with the fight for life and death, as is known from other continents. Never nezapasily females.Females have always been intended to preserve the family and serve as watchdogs.

Although the history of this type of dog fights in Japan, supposedly dates back to the fourteenth century, the history of the breed Tosa Inu is not long. Increased popularity gained in the Tosa samurai caste practice in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the end of the nineteenth century, dog fighting is practiced primarily in the administrative districts in the islands Shkoku and Tohoku. Most were in the administrative district of Tosa on Shikoku.

The first dog zapasnici not like today's by far the Tosa. They were smaller with less mass, and although the Japanese wanted the large and heavy breeds, for the isolation of Japan was geographically and ideologically, for many centuries, the supply of all dog breeds, including the new bare impossibility.

First tosy is rather similar to the Japanese and the local breed spicum Nihon-ins, weigh slightly more than 30 kilograms, had built the ears and tail zatoceny over the ridge. They were smaller than today's breed Akita Inu from areas Odate and Akita. Breeding has been on the island of Shikoku in the province of Tosa, whence comes the name of the breed. Japanese here for many years organized dog fighting, which tried to vyslechtit the best fighter.

1848, the Nagasaki began keeping tos address expert Japanese dog breeds H. Saint. Breeder of Tosa Othaka then in Nagasaki purchased a very aggressive dog and joined him with a dog called Shikoku. For their descendants became an excellent combat dogs and everlasting memory was still maintained their names: Sakaino Hiko, Daiganjino Hats and Inagi-no book.They are considered the predecessor of today's tosy, although other varieties have followed.

In 1854 changed Japanese foreign policy, were repealed by the current strict regulations on the movement of foreigners and of foreign visitors to the country receiving an increasing number of foreign dogs. Japanese breeders should aim to ennoble the general appearance of the current breed of Shikoku-ken and a series of successive selective crossing them even succeeded: crossing the bulldog around 1,872 won breed great press, with bullterierem high resistance, with pointrem temperament as mastifem (c. 1874) heftiness body and skull. To increase the weight they have been imported from Switzerland svatobernardsti dogs, due to militancy bordeauxske dogs, around 1876 added even more, and finally German hound German dogs.Japanese and created a large, hbiteho, athletic dog, which unnecessarily nesteka, has a high degree of intelligence, is also courageous and gentle, obedient and alert.

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