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  2. Okuri-inu - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, it is said that the Japanese wolf had a trait of following humans in order to monitor them. Yōkai investigator Kenji Murakami, too, has hypothesised that the okuri-ōkami is actually the Japanese wolf, and that tales of strange goings on or protecting people are merely convenient interpretations of the Japanese wolf's nature and ...

  3. Japanese wolf - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese wolf (Japanese: ニホンオオカミ(日本狼), Hepburn: Nihon ōkami, or 山犬, yamainu [see below]; Canis lupus hodophilax), also known as the Honshū wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago.

  4. Kibakichi - Wikipedia

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    Kibakichi (牙吉 Bakko Yokaiden Kibakichi) a 2003 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Tomoo Haraguchi. The film is about a youkai with the ability to transform himself into a werewolf-like beast at will and feed on human flesh. A sequel followed the film's release in Japan in the same year.

  5. Wolf's Daughter: A Werewolf's Tale - Wikipedia

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    Wolf's Daughter: A Werewolf's Tale (狼の娘, Ōkami no Musume) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Kodama. It began serialization in Shogakukan's josei manga magazine Monthly Flowers in August 2022.

  6. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. List of werewolves - Wikipedia

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    The main protagonist and young Japanese wolf zoanthrope who was fighting to uncover the circumstances of his mercenary father's death, brought upon from fighting in a South American country. He raided the Tylon corporation along with his father's friend, the French lion zoanthrope and fellow mercenary named Alan Gado.

  8. Are werewolves real? The facts and history behind the myth

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    The werewolf trials. While most people know of the witch trials that took place in Europe and in the American colonies (including Salem, Massachusetts) during the 1500's and 1600's, few are aware ...

  9. Raijū - Wikipedia

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    A raijū's body is composed of (or wrapped in) lightning and commonly conceived of as taking the form of a white-blue wolf or dog, among other such animal forms as a tanuki, leopard, fox, weasel, black or white panther, serow, ferret, marten, tiger, and cat. [1]