Tanuki

Tanuki is a canid and usually called a raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides). They exist in eastern Europe and China and Japan. Tanuki is a trickster in Japanese folktales and is considered the patron god of restauranteurs. I saw a good mid-sized statue of him last night in the sushi bar I ate at. He is distinguished by huge testicles. Really big. 6 or 8 tatami mats big. Sometimes a thousand tatami mats (senjojiki). He likes to disguise himself as a human sometimes and buy saki from a dealer. When he disappears, after drinking, the dealer is left with some leaves he though was money.

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