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The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. [1] [8] [9] [10] It is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as ...
In the year 657 a byakko or "white fox" was reported to have been witnessed in Iwami Province, [13] [12] possibly a sign of good omen. [b] And in 659, a fox bit off the end of a creeping vine plant held by the laborer (shrine construction worker), [d] interpreted as an inauspicious omen foreshadowing the death of Empress Saimei the following year.
Kuzunoha figures in kabuki and bunraku plays based on her legend, including the five-part Ashiya Dōman Ōuchi Kagami (A Courtly Mirror of Ashiya Dōman).The fourth part, Kuzunoha or The White Fox of Shinoda, which is frequently performed independently of the other scenes, focuses on her story, adding minor variations such as the idea that Kuzunoha imitates a princess and is forced to depart ...
A prominent feature that separates the kumiho from its two counterparts (although, both Japanese Kitsune and Chinese Huli Jing having their own versions of “knowledge beads”, in the form of Kitsune’s starball and Huli Jing’s “golden elixir” neidan) is the existence of a 'yeowoo guseul' (여우구슬, literally meaning fox marble) which is said to consist of knowledge.
The Life of White Fox 白狐的人生 (2019) Eternal Love of Dream (2020) Kumiho in Lovecraft Country Episode 6 "Meet Me in Daegu" (2020) Lee Dong Wook in Tale Of The Nine Tailed (2020) My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021) In Kamen Rider Geats (2022), the main character's motif is based on the Nine-tailed fox. Additionally, the main character's final ...
[6] He decided to study the silver fox and to observe how the fox responds to selective pressures for tame behaviour. [10] Belyayev chose the silver fox for his experiment, "because it is a social animal and is related to the dog." [8] The silver fox had, however, never before been domesticated. Belyayev designed a selective-breeding program ...
The story relates that a monk who was a worshiper of Dakiniten had just finished reciting the 600-fascicle Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra when a white fox holding a jewel (cintāmaṇi) in its mouth appeared on the altar. The fox then transformed into a youth, who declared that he was the deity Ukanomitama and that his jewel grants all wishes. [39]
The kitsune no yomeiri (狐の嫁入り, "the fox's wedding") is a term or metaphor for certain natural phenomena, or a folk belief regarding a supernatural event, in Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. [1]