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The Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), [1] also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, タヌキ), [2] is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It is one of two species in the genus Nyctereutes, alongside the common raccoon dog (N. procyonoides), [3] of which it was traditionally thought to be a subspecies (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus).
Taxidermy of a Japanese raccoon dog, wearing waraji on its feet: This tanuki is displayed in a Buddhist temple in Japan, in the area of the folktale "Bunbuku Chagama".. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki, written during the Nara period, is the passages "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu ...
Mujina is an old Japanese term primarily referring to the Japanese badger, but traditionally to the Japanese raccoon dog , causing confusion. [1] [2] Adding to the confusion, it may also refer to the introduced masked palm civet [citation needed], and in some regions badger-like animals or Japanese raccoon dog are also called mami.
The priest Shukaku (who later turned out to be a raccoon dog) had accompanied the priest who founded the Morinji-temple during the Ōei era (year 1426 [39]); then while serving the 7th abbot Shukaku brought out an inexhaustible tea-kettle or cauldron , able to supply hot water day and night without running out, and thus was able to serve tea to ...
Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan. The products from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical ...
Common racoon (Procyon lotor). Procyonidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes raccoons, coatis, olingos, kinkajous, ring-tailed cats, and cacomistles, and many other extant and extinct mammals.
A homeowner who fed neighborhood raccoons for decades called 911 after coming home to find more than 100 of the fuzzy masked invaders "demanding food" and preventing her from getting inside.
In Japan, up to 1,500 raccoons were imported as pets each year after the success of the anime series Rascal the Raccoon (1977). In 2004, the descendants of discarded or escaped animals lived in 42 of 47 prefectures. [254] [255] [256] The range of raccoons in the wild in Japan grew from 17 prefectures in 2000 to all 47 prefectures in 2008. [257]