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Cattle breeds of East Asia

Wagyu and the native black cattle of Japan, Hanwoo of Korea, the yellow cattle of China, and the herds and yaks of Mongolia. 10 breeds on EveryCow so far.

🇰🇷 South Korea and 1 moreHanwoo한우 A small, brown taurine breed from Korea, once used for work and now prized for its premium beef.Taurine · Beef · Docile

🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Black黒毛和種 A black-coated Japanese beef breed whose Tajima strain supplies Kobe beefTaurine · Beef

🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Polled無角和種 A small black Japanese beef breed, hornless in both sexesTaurine · Beef · Polled 🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Brown褐毛和種 A small brown beef breed from Kōchi and Kumamoto, one of the four wagyūTaurine · Beef

🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Shorthorn日本短角種 A small Japanese beef breed of the north, red, roan or red-pied, horned in both sexesTaurine · Beef 🇨🇳 ChinaYanbian A humpless yellow breed from north-east China, a draught worker in the rice fieldsTaurine · Draught

🇯🇵 JapanMishima見島牛 A small black beef breed that survives only on Mishima Island, JapanTaurine · Beef

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Japanese Polled: JIRCAS Library, CC BY 2.0, source
Hanwoo: mycrefun, CC0, source
Wagyu: Japanexperterna.se, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Japanese Shorthorn: JIRCAS Library, CC BY 2.0, source
Mishima: LT sfm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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