Today I found this amazing gallery of an Akita fan: Pekingin-Ankka’s deviantART gallery (I linked to it from here but unfortunately her account is no longer active).

She draws and shapes different kinds of material into Akita’s. Mostly drawings and plushies but you can even get an Akita tail to accompany you best suit or see marzipan Akita candy.

It’s very clear that this Finnish girl, Terella Tanskanen, just loves to draw Akitas. At the moment she is researching this beautiful breed to write an essay for school.

Are you perhaps wondering why I’m showing the larger version of this one, named ‘Forbidden Love‘?

Have a look at this picture of my Akita ‘Kensho’ with my cat ‘Tommie’.

Do you recognize this one?

It’s Akita ‘Gin’ from the Japanese anime series ‘Silver Fang’ sitting in a bowl of soup, hence the name “Miso Dog Soup”.

The Akita drawings are published with permission from Terella and I wish her all the best of luck with the Akita essay.

I’ve asked her why she is drawing Akita’s and here is her reply:

“I drew the pictures because the Akita is my favorite breed. I think that the Akita is a beautiful and nice dog.

I fell in love with Akitas when I went to work for an Akita breeder and I took care of their Akitas, two adult females and two puppies. There were many other dogs from different breeds at the kennel but only the Akitas truly touched my heart. Akita is also very exotic because it originates from an exotic country.

I don´t have an Akita myself because my apartment is too small but I´m waiting eagerly the day when I can buy a big apartment and finally get an Akita. For now I dream and put my love of Akitas into artwork because that is my way of handling feelings and thoughts.”

And she’s also very enthusiastic about my two Akita devoted sites (although one of them is an oldie in Dutch) :

“Your site seems very good and I registered there. It´s so great that you decided to start a site like this.

Oh, so it´s you who hosts that Akita picture site. I found it some time ago and it must be the best Akita picture site in the world. I hope you update it often or put new pictures to this new site.”

Do you know of any other Akita artists? Do you want to show off your work at Akita Blog? Let me know about it!

Use the comments section on each blog post to give your opinion.

In Japan the Akita is regarded as a token for good luck.

Silver Fang (1986), a 21-episode anime series, is based on a manga of the same name in 1984 created by Yoshihiro Takahaski. He was reportedly inspired by a news article which told of hunting dogs that had been abandoned by their masters and had begun living as wild animals…

This Japanese anime tells the story of an Akita Inu pup called Gin (Japanese for ‘silver’) who leaves his master, a young boy named Daisuke, to join a pack of wild dogs. The pack is gathering strong dogs from all over Japan to fight a deranged bear named Akakabuto and his minions.

The story begins from the point of view of the humans, but swings to the dogs with episode 7 of the anime. It is in that episode that the audience hears the dogs communicating with each other through speech, though it continues to be barks and whines to human ears.

This anime has become extremely popular in the Nordic countries (Finland, Denmark and Sweden) and has been dubbed in multiple other countries.

Other dogs from the film include: a German Shepherd, a Great Dane, A Weinmaraner, a Cocker Spaniel, a Japanese Kai Ken dog, a Rough Collie, a Siberian Husky, a Dachshund, a Japanese Tosa Inu fighting dog and a Japanese Kishu Inu dog.