Canine Tales and Chinese Literature in Konjaku Monogatarishu

Canine used to be domesticated as livestock in the Chou dynasty of China. In addition to its edibility, it used to expel bandits and hunt with mankind. Due to its close ties with human daily routines, ancient canine tales are often found in texts. In the Six-Dynasty (Wei-Chin South-North dynasty) period, a great number of Buddhist tales in India and Xi-yu the west states (consisting of foreign tribes) against the Central Plain entered China, rendering the diversity to canine tales that entered Japan later for frequent cultural exchanges between China and Japan at that time.
Actually, ancient literature in Japan used to cover dog-related tales. In particular, Konjaku Monogatarishuu in the late Heian Period the first half of the 12th century as the anthology of Buddhist and vulgar tales in India, China and Japan collects 18 canine tales where 5 tales are identified to correlate obviously with Chinese ancient legends and tales. The author explores the correlation between aliens in Konjaku Monogatarishuu and those in Chinese literature besides their similarities and dissimilarities with a focus on canine talks described in Konjaku Monogatarishuu in order to inquire the correlation with Chinese literature besides the similarities and dissimilarities concerned.