It seems they were opportunistic predators sometimes preying on humans and their horses and yet sometimes tolerating human presence. There's a belief that at least one Japanese dog breed is part Wolf and reported sightings of this officially extinct species are probably of feral dogs with wolf genes.
The stories vary from place to place however in one special place nearly lost there is a whole shrine ceiling covered with paintings of wolves.
The Yamatsumi shrine up in Fukushima was damaged by a fire a few years back but fortunately someone had photographed the ceiling art and and a group of scholars and painters got together to restore the paintings when the shrine was rebuilt.
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