Abstract
As to the fossil elephants, the ancient Japanese naturalists for a long ti-me believed, following the explanation in the Chinese Pents'ao, that they were the skeletons of dragon but later in the Yedo period some scholars grew suspicio-us about its veracity., The questions of dragons had been variously discussed si-nce 1760 till the so-called "skeletons of dragons" found in Japan were proved to be the fossil remains of elephants in 1811.,
