English: Depicted here on the right are a woman and her husband, who happens to be a dog: the woman's father the Lord of Satomi had vowed to present her to whoever brought him the head of his enemy, and it was brought by a dog. The couple pass an oxherd on their way to a mountain abode, where the woman will give birth to eight sons, each representing a traditional Chinese virtue (loyalty, wisdom, truthfulness, and so forth), the names of which appear around the neck of the vase. The story was taken from an early 19th-century Japanese novel, "Hakkenden," "The Story of Eight Dogs."