Kitsune
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The kitsune, in popular Japanese folklore, is a fox or fox spirit which possesses the supernatural ability to shapeshift or bewitch other life forms.
The moon on Musashi Plain (fox) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto features numerous kitsune statues.
![Inari Ōkami and its fox spirits help the blacksmith Sanjō Munechika [ja] forge the blade Kogitsune-maru ('Little Fox') at the end of the 10th century.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Blacksmith_Munechika%2C_helped_by_a_fox_spirit%2C_forging_the_blade_Ko-Gitsune_Maru%2C_by_Ogata_Gekk%C5%8D.jpg/500px-Blacksmith_Munechika%2C_helped_by_a_fox_spirit%2C_forging_the_blade_Ko-Gitsune_Maru%2C_by_Ogata_Gekk%C5%8D.jpg)
Inari Ōkami and its fox spirits help the blacksmith Sanjō Munechika [ja] forge the blade Kogitsune-maru ('Little Fox') at the end of the 10th century. The legend is the subject of the noh drama Sanjō Kokaji.
Inari Ōkami appears to a warrior accompanied by a kitsune. This portrayal shows the influence of Dakiniten concepts from Buddhism. Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Nine-tailed fox
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The nine-tailed fox is a mythical fox entity originating from the mythology of China.
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…painting of Tamamo previously as Lady Kayō of India). Tamamo clearly draws from Chinese myth and literature, so her being depicted as a golden-furred and kyūbi no kitsune (九尾の狐; 'nine-tailed fox') matches precisely what the Chinese classics writes about the celestial fox (tian hu 天狐) which a 1,000 year old fox turns into…
Mansindo, early 19th c. Korean shamanic painting
Amaterasu cave crop
Kuniteru Gozu dragon