It seems that Kenji did not think well of people who killed animals for sport rather than because they had to to make a living. In "The Restaurant of Many Orders," city-dwelling hunters went through the frightful experience of nearly being eaten by a wildcat in a restaurant called Wildcat House--which they thought would be a splendid restaurant in the forest, not realizing that they were the meal to be served. But in "The Bears of Nametoko," the circumstances between animals and human beings are quite different, as seen in the relationship between the bears of Mt. Nametoko and a hunter called Kojuro.