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	B & C ANTIQUES Vintage Arts,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese,Tea Articles Directory
		This wonderfully whimsical cast iron tea kettle (“tetsubin”) was cast in the form of a tanuki and represents the Japanese folk tale, “Bunbuku Chagama,” in which the animal transforms itself into a tea kettle.
		An unidentified four character signature with four character seal is cast into the body beneath the spout, which is formed in the shape of the tanuki’s head with open mouth and pointed ears.
		“Bunbuku Chagama” is an old Japanese folktale with numerous variations which gained popularity in Japan during the Edo period when tanuki were the subject of many folk stories and every family had an iron kettle kept hot above the family hearth.
	www.trocadero.com /stores/bnc19/catalog/Vintage_Arts:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Tea_Articles.html (1232 words)

	Bunbuku chagama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bubuku Chagama is a Japanese folktale about a raccoon-dog, or tanuki, that uses its shapeshifting powers to reward its rescuer for his kindness.
		Bunbuku Chagama roughly translates to "happiness bubbling over like a tea pot." The story tells of a poor man who finds a Tanuki caught in a trap.
		The tanuki transforms itself into a chagama and tells the man to sell him for money.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunbuku_chagama (234 words)

	Tanuki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shapeshifting tanuki are sometimes believed to be a transformation of the souls of household goods that were used for one hundred years or more.
		A popular tale known as Bunbuku chagama is about a tanuki who fooled a monk by transforming into a tea-kettle.
		Another is about a tanuki who tricked a hunter by disguising his arms as tree boughs, until he spread both arms at the same time and fell off the tree.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanuki (720 words)

	Japanese tales - Bunpuku Chagama
		The fisherman couldn’t see why not, as he was often lonely at night and this tanuki was so fuzzy and cuddly.
		Bunbuku appreciated the fisherman’s kindness and suggested a way the man become rich.
		Although he was too shy to appear in public in his real form, as a teakettle Bunbuku could perform all manner of tricks, like dancing or tightrope walking.
	students.ou.edu /B/Amy.C.Blom-1/folklore/story2.htm (1053 words)

	Midnight Eye feature: Pioneers of Japanese Animation
		There were even a string of live action musical comedies in the 50s celebrating the lives of such bawdy bands of brothers, and fans of the truly strange will be ecstatic to hear that none other than Seijun Suzuki is planning on reviving the tanuki musical comedy with his next film.
		The tanuki cropped up in Murata's The Bunbuku Teapot (Bunbuku Chagama, 1928), in which a young loafer rescues a tanuki that has been caught in a trap.
		In the similarly themed The Dance of the Chagamas (Chagama Ondo, 1934), the mischievous creatures are lured into a Buddhist temple by the sound of the shaven-headed monk and his young acolyte playing gramophone records, which they attempt to steal.
	www.midnighteye.com /features/pioneers-of-anime.shtml (3602 words)

	Chagama - Cahgama - Dangeruss-Industries.com
		A chagama(茶釜) is an old style of Japanese teapot as used for the traditional tea ceremonies.
		They are often round with two rings, one on each side for carrying and/or hanging over an old-style indoor fire.
		The chagama plays a role in a Japanese folktale about a tanuki, whose shapeshifting abilities allow it to transform into one.
	www.dangeruss-industries.com /Chagama_x_Cahgama_x.html (57 words)

	Bunbuku Chagama by Gerald Milazzo
		Bunbuku Chagama netsuke made of boxwood with inlaid buffalo horn eyes.
		This work of art is currently available for purchase and on display in our gallery in Honolulu.
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	www.robynbuntin.com /Japanese/g_japanese_ind.asp?ProductID=9797 (102 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bunbuku chagama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Binomial name Nyctereutes procyonoides (Gray, 1834) A raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) is a member of the canid family and is considered to be a species of dog although they are often confused with raccoons and badgers.
		Shapeshifting, transformation or transmogrification refers to a change in the form or shape of a person.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bunbuku-chagama (350 words)

	Tanuki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunbuku Chagama is a famous folklore featuring Tanuki.
		A Tanuki disguised as a Chagama, tea kettle for tea ceremonies to help his friend, a poor farmer.
		But when the monk put Chagama on fire, Tanuki ran away...
	www.harapan.co.jp /english/JPImage_e/tanuki.htm (486 words)

	FAQ // Pom Poko // Nausicaa.net
		Some of the Tanuki folklore featured in "Pom Poko" might be available in English, since it is quite popular and well-known.
		One of them is "Bunbuku Chagama", a story about a Tanuki who changed into a tea kettle (and of course, he was put on a fire).
		Chagama (tea kettle) is the fl round thing the Tanukis were trying to change into when they were training (the scene where they were thrown off a cliff).
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/pompoko/faq.html (2052 words)

	Transformed Tanuki Siblings by SleepyShippo - Fanart Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those marks under his eyes aren't bags from lack of sleep; when a tanuki has been holding a transformation for a while and is starting to get tired, their 'tanuki mask' begins to show.
		Kita has turned herself into a traditional Japanese tea ceremony pot, a pun on a well-known tanuki story called Bunbuku Chagama.
		There was a poor man out gathering wood when he came across a tanuki caught in a trap.
	www.fanart-central.net /pic-106201.html (348 words)

	Tanuki - Japanese God of Restauranteers
		In one, a Tanuki is helped by a poor man who saved its life, so the Tanuki turns into a Chagama (tea kettle used in tea ceremony) to help the old man make money.
		The woodsman sells the kettle to a priest, who in turn orders his assistants to clean it and use it to make tea.
		The priest carries the kettle back to the temple, but when placed on the fire, the kettle sprouts arms, legs, a nose, and ears, and soon resumes its true Tanuki shape.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tanuki.shtml (1890 words)

	1996.010.021 Figurine image (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ceramic Badger/Teakettle Brown painted or stained clay with carved details: hair, claws, eyes, open mouth, mottled indentations in tea kettle top.
		Story of Bunbuku Chagama or The Magic Tea Kettle A priest at the Morinji Buddhist temple in Tatebayashi, Kotszke was very fond of the tea ceremony and he often looked for beautiful utensils.
		He polished an old tea kettle he had found at a second hand shop and put it aside.
	www.wingluke.org /CHC/exhibit2/e20566b.htm (511 words)

	Bunbuku Chagama 2 - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunbuku Chagama 2 - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
		Web Japan > Kids Web Japan > Culture > Folk Legends > Bunbuku > Bunbuku 02
		Back home, Jinbei started putting all the junk in order.
	web-japan.org /kidsweb/folk/bunbuku/bunbuku2.html (217 words)

	Bunbuku Chagama 5 - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunbuku Chagama 5 - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan
		Thanks to Jinbei's care, the raccoon's burns healed in no time.
		In this way, not only was the raccoon able to return Jinbei's favor but the two of them also became very rich and lived together happily ever after.
	web-jpn.org /kidsweb/folk/bunbuku/bunbuku5.html (186 words)

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