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He can shapeshift into any of nine physical appearances including a handsome man, a young boy, a beautiful woman and a baby fox with nine tails. He runs a small restaurant, Moonflower, in Tenjin-ya's annex building but does not receive many customers. He asks Aoi to take over the restaurant after tasting her human style food.
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 fox spirit is an especially prolific shapeshifter, known variously as the húli jīng (fox spirit) in China, the kitsune (fox) in Japan, and the kumiho (nine-tailed fox) in Korea. Although the specifics of the tales vary, these fox spirits can usually shapeshift, often taking the form of beautiful young women who attempt to seduce men ...
In Meireki 3 (AD 1657), tanuki were farmed and their skins were used in the crafting of bellows. Danzaburou was the name of a human merchant in Echigo, who purportedly began caring for and trying to conserve the tanuki in Sado, and became widely respected on the island. Theory states that the tanuki itself was later worshiped as an ujigami. [13]
The kanji used to write the word is an ateji, although its characters reflect the popular belief that the movement of the mechanism is caused by supernatural agents (ko 狐, kitsune; ku 狗, dog/tengu; ri 狸, tanuki). The modern version is similar to a Ouija board.
Sennen Kitsune: Kanpō "Sōjinki" yori (千年狐 ～干宝「捜神記」より～) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rokurō Chō. It was originally published as a one-shot in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine in December 2017. It later began serialization in the same magazine in April 2018.
Gugure! Kokkuri-san (繰繰れ! コックリさん, "Repeat! Kokkuri-san") is a Japanese manga series by Midori Endō, serialized in Square Enix's Gangan Joker since 2011. It has been collected in 12 (plus 1) tankōbon volumes until 2016 when it ended.