hachijo-jima

Updated: May 13, 2025

At first these orders were not very seriously regarded, but by and by, when many persons had been banished to Hachijo-jima for killing dogs; when several others had been reproved publicly for not giving food to homeless animals, and when officials of the supreme court were condemned to confinement for having taken no steps to prevent dog-fights, the citizens began to appreciate that the shogun was in grim earnest.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era