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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 ...
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).
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 ...
Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus or Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), a canid mammal native to Japan; Bake-danuki, a type of spirit (yōkai) in Japanese mythology that appears in the form of the mammal; A deadwood bonsai technique; Tanooki Suit, a raccoon-tailed power-up in the Super Mario video game series
He is also called Tasaburō-tanuki (太三郎狸), Yashima no Hage, and Yashima no Kamuro (屋島の禿). He is counted as one of the "three famous tanuki of Japan", along with Danzaburou-danuki of Sado and Shibaemon-tanuki of Awaji. [1] He is also famous due to his appearance in the Studio Ghibli animated movie, Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko. [2]
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A fish person or mermaid, the flesh of which is sometimes said to grant good health and long life, if not outright immortality. Ninigi-no-Mikoto Grandson of sun goddess Amaterasu and great-grandfather of Japan's first emperor, Emperor Jimmu. The amatsukami sent him down from Takamagahara to replace Ōkuninushi as the ruler of the earth. Nobusuma