The tradition of a dog which brought cereals to mankind in old times is spread among agricultural peoples of South China-Chinese, Miao, Yao, Thai, Tibetan. We can group these traditions into two types as follows. 1) Unhulled rice was brought to mankind by the tail of a dog swimming through the water. 2) Cereals except rice-barley corn, etc. and melon was brought by a dog (lacks in the factors of "tail" and "throught the water" in this type). We find generally type 1 among the agricultural area of wet rice and type 2 in that of another cereals. It is probable that type 2 is a variation of type 1. And it seems that the tradition of "Inoko (亥の子)" -deals with a dog and barley- in Japanese Archipelago is a versionn of type 2.

松本信廣先生古稀記念