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A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.
Animals in Japanese mythology (4 C, 3 P) D. Japanese demons (2 C, 7 P) ... Pages in category "Japanese legendary creatures" The following 53 pages are in this ...
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 ...
Toggle Animals in Japan subsection. 1.1 Mammals. 1.2 Birds. 1.3 Marine animals. 1.4 Fish. ... Ussuri brown bear Sable Sea otter Japanese hare Daubenton's bat Japanese ...
Embedded in Japanese folklore as they are, kitsune appear in numerous Japanese works. Noh , kyogen , bunraku , and kabuki plays derived from folk tales feature them, [ 75 ] [ 76 ] as do contemporary works such as native animations, comic books and video games . [ 77 ]
Cool Japanese Cat Names. Japanese pop cultural exports like anime, fashion, video games, and even food are so enormously popular worldwide that in Japan, this fad phenomenon is referred to as ...
A shōjō standing on a giant sake cup, and using a long-handled sake ladle to pole through a sea of water or sake; detail from a whimsical Edo-period painting.. A shōjō (猩 々 or 猩猩) is the Japanese reading of Chinese xing-xing (猩猩) or its older form sheng sheng (狌狌, translated as "live-lively"), which is a mythical primate, though it has been tentatively identified with an ...
As it crawled it extended over a space of eight hills and eight valleys." The botanical names used to describe this Orochi are akakagachi or hoozuki (winter cherry or Japanese lantern, Physalis alkekengi), hikage (club moss, Lycopodiopsida), hinoki (Japanese cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa), and sugi (Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria).