Tanuki may refer to: Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus or Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus), a mammal native to Japan Bake-danuki, a type...
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Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus), also known by its Japanese name tanuki (Japanese: 狸, たぬき), is a species of canid endemic to Japan. It is one of...
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Pom Poko (redirect from Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko)
Pom Poko (Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, lit. 'Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko') is a 1994 Japanese animated fantasy film...
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Japan, commonly associated with the Japanese raccoon dog or tanuki. Although the tanuki is a real, extant animal, the bake-danuki that appears in literature...
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Shibaemon-tanuki, or Shibaemon-danuki (芝右衛門狸 or 柴右衛門狸) is a bake-danuki told in the legends of Awaji island, Hyōgo Prefecture. Along with Danzaburou-danuki...
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Tanuki-bayashi (狸囃子) is a strange phenomenon of sound, told about in legends across Japan. In the middle of the night, they are musical sounds like flutes...
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Lake Tanuki (田貫湖, Tanuki-ko) is a lake near Mount Fuji, Japan. It is located in the city of Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, and is part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu...
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Kachi-kachi Yama (section The trouble-making tanuki)
which a tanuki is the villain, rather than the more usual boisterous, well-endowed alcoholic. As the story goes, a man caught a troublesome tanuki in his...
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Bunbuku Chagama (section Fox and tanuki)
literally "Bunbuku tea-kettle" is a Japanese folktale or fairy tale about a tanuki (raccoon dog), that uses its shapeshifting powers to reward its rescuer...
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Ghost train (section Japan: Tanuki versus steam trains)
is a folk tale of a phantom/counterfeit/ghost steam train involving the tanuki. Such tales were widespread by 1910, and folklorist Kizen Sasaki commented...
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Tanuki was a Japanese restaurant and bar in Portland, Oregon. The business operated from 2008 to 2019. The Japanese restaurant Tanuki initially operated...
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Shichihenge tanuki goten (七変化狸御殿), lit. "Quick Change Tanuki Palace"), is a 1954 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tatsuo Ohsone. Hibari Misora...
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Yashima no Hage-tanuki (屋島の禿狸) is a Bake-danuki (化け狸, Supernatural raccoon dog), who appears in the legends of Yashima, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. He...
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The Awa Tanuki Gassen (阿波狸合戦) (also called the Awa no Tanuki Gassen (阿波の狸合戦) or the Kinchō Tanuki Gassen (金長狸合戦)) is a Japanese legend that takes place...
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The Awa no Tanuki Festival (阿波の狸まつり) is a festival held each year in early November in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture. The Awa no Tanuki festival...
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Deadwood bonsai techniques (redirect from Tanuki Bonsai)
In Japanese folklore, tanuki (狸, alternatively タヌキ), are shape-changing tricksters inspired by the Japanese raccoon dog. Tanuki bonsai are sometimes known...
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Omae, Tanuki ni Naranē ka? (お前、タヌキにならねーか?, lit. 'Would you like to be a tanuki?') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomo Nagawa. It...
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him and tears its chest open. Tanuki and Rabbit: A man catches a tanuki and tells his wife to cook it in a stew. The tanuki begs the wife not to cook him...
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to the Japanese badger, but traditionally to the Japanese raccoon dog (tanuki), causing confusion. Adding to the confusion, it may also refer to the introduced...
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Nag and Yuxa (snake) Myrmidons (ant) Pipa Jing (jade pipa) Selkie (seal) Tanuki (racoon dog) Toyotama-hime (crocodile or shark) Tsuru Nyōbō (crane) Ala...
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Princess Raccoon (redirect from Operetta tanuki goten)
Operetta tanuki goten) is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The "raccoon" of the English title is actually a translation for the tanuki or Japanese...
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okonomiyaki. Hot plain soba and udon with added tenkasu are called tanuki-soba and tanuki-udon (haikara-soba and haikara-udon in Kansai region). They are...
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courtesan to beguile Emperor Konoe. Tanuki The Japanese raccoon dog. In folklore, tanuki have the ability to shapeshift. Tanuki-bayashi A phenomenon where flutes...
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Inugami Gyōbu (隠神刑部) or Gyōbu-danuki (刑部狸) is a bake-danuki (a monster tanuki) told about in legends passed down in Matsuyama, Iyo Province (now Ehime...
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release 2 further solo albums, more in the acoustic folk vein on the Tanuki Tanuki label (set up by former La's A&R man and his then manager Jona Cox.)...
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Kyoto, humans live in the city while tanuki roam the earth and tengu roam the sky. The story surrounds a family of tanuki, the Shimogamo family. They have...
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kitsune-foxes (or perhaps the "fox spirits") can bewitch people, just like the tanuki they have the ability to shapeshift into human or other forms, and to trick...
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with the Shibaemon-tanuki of Awaji Island, and the Yashima no Hage-tanuki of Kagawa Prefecture, they form the "three famous tanuki" of Japan. The supreme...
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shichimi tōgarashi (mixed chili powder). Haikara soba (ハイカラ蕎麦, modern soba) : Tanuki soba Kake soba 掛け蕎麦: Hot soba in broth topped with thinly sliced scallion...
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1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, is a giant spirit inspired by raccoon dogs (tanuki) and cats (neko). Among the studio's highest-grossing films are Princess...
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