Attn: @bokane.org: when did cats first show up in Chinese poetry? The word for 'cat' first shows up in Japanese in the late 700s, in the Iryōki 異霊記. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
The animals were likely gifted to some elites, then spread throughout the region
