Wolf Paintings

I am a member of 'JAPAN WOLF ASSOCIATION'.

They publish journals called 'FOREST CALL' twice a year.

And this time, my painting was used on the front cover.

Japanese wolves are extinct about 150 years ago,

so I painted it not as a entity but a soul.

In short, It's kinda ghost.

Please don't be scared...

This is like:

A shy wolf tilting his neck thinking, 'who are you?'

to the visitor in the forest.

In Japanese, there is an expression: 'escorting wolf'.

It is used as 'a man who escorts a woman home out of lecherous intent'

But originally, It had a different meaning.

It is based on the behavior of wolves.

They follow people until they leave their territory.

Wolves normally don't attack people.

People who lived near wolves even used to have a custom

like bowing down to the forrest after they walked through it safely in the dark.

They thought that wolves protected people in the forest.

This painting was also used in a page of the journal.

My friend I met in New Zealand bought this.

The original paintings of above.