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	Tanuki - Learn more about this magical Japanese shape-shifter (Japan Times story)
		The tanuki is the subject of innumerable amusing and intriguing myths and folk tales, and is often linked with the teakettle because of its pot-bellied appearance.
		As tanuki have moved into suburban and even urban areas in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s, they have taken to feeding at rubbish dumps and are even fed by local people in their gardens.
		Tanuki mate and rear their young in the spring, like most temperate mammals, so in late summer the young tanuki are learning their way around their home forest in preparation for the coming autumn and their first winter.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tanuki-jt.shtml (1285 words)

	Tanuki - Japanese God of Restauranteers, Japanese Buddhism & Shintoism Photo Dictionary
		Tanuki statues are found everywhere around Japan, especially outside restaurants and bars, where the Tanuki beckons drinkers and dinners to enter (similar to the role played by Maneki Neko, the Beckoning Cat, who stands outside retail establishments).
		The Tanuki is reportedly native to Japan, southeastern Siberia and Manchuria.
		The Tanuki is synonymous with modern-day Shigaraki (Shiga Prefecture).
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tanuki.shtml (2144 words)

	FAQ // Pom Poko // Nausicaa.net
		Tanukis play tricks on humans (for example, changing into a human and buying some sake with fake money made from leaves), the tricks are usually harmless, but they often provoke severe retaliation from humans.
		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).
		If Tanukis standing on their hind legs and wearing human clothes appeared in front of humans and spoke, it would have looked like a Disney family movie, and considering the serious nature of the issues Pom Poko deals with, that wouldn't have worked.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/pompoko/faq.html (2096 words)

	Tanuki
		Tanuki (ÇøÉåÇ¤ or Áã) is often mistakenly translated as raccoon or badger, but is in fact a raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a distinct canid species native to Japan.
		The mythical tanuki is reputed to be mischievous and jolly, a master of disguise and shapeshifting, but somewhat gullible and absent-minded.
		Shapeshifting tanuki are sometimes believed to be a transformation of the souls of household goods that were used for one hundred years or more.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Tanuki.php (1180 words)

	Dancing with Badgers: Tanuki - Just Don't Call Him Late for Dinner
		The Tanuki Kami, as opposed to the zoologically identified tanuki, is usually presented as an itinerant Buddhist monk or priest wearing a kimono and a traditional straw hat, carrying a sheaf of papers in one hand, a saké jug in the other.
		A famous tanuki story, "Click-Clack Mountain" is retold lavishly in The Daily Yomiuri, a Japanese, English-language newspaper, as "Rabbit's Revenge." It is a nightmare of violence as unnerving as a Grimms' fairy tale or a children's cartoon.
		Tanuki Enterprises, a computer company based in Florida, includes on their web site a small but charming gallery of antique tanuki-related Japanese art works, ranging from netsukes to bronze figures and a beautiful ink drawing.
	www.dancingbadger.com /mustel07.htm (1593 words)

	Lucky Tanuki Pty Ltd
		Lucky Tanuki Pty Ltd is a new media production company based in Melbourne, Australia.
		Lucky Tanuki trades as Internet Guru and Ezifriends.
		If you are interested feel free to contact us and introduce yourself
	www.luckytanuki.com (69 words)

	ï»¿Tanuki ~ ç¸ ~ ãã¬ã ~ part of The Obakemono Project: An Online Encylopedia of YÅkai and ...
		In folklore the tanuki is a bit like the plump, comical brother of the fox, equally prone to mischief and shape-changing and the deception of humans.
		The tanuki is also said to be fond of coming out at dusk and drumming on its plump belly and distended kin-tama ("golden balls"), filling the night air with the deep hollow sound of pon-poko-pon.
		In Ehime prefecture an audacious tanuki named Inugami-gyÅbu had a band of eight hundred and eight followers, and layed plans to capture Matsuyama Castle, but the tanuki were all defeated and sealed up in a cave by a hero wielding a magic wooden hammer.
	www.obakemono.com /obake/tanuki (583 words)

	Tanuki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, unlike foxes and kitsune, tanuki are rarely messengers of deities or anyone else, for that matter; they act on their own and often do so mischievously, to cause chaos and confusion amongst humans and, sometimes, other youkai.
		A male tanuki's most striking feature is undoubtedly his immense scrotum, which is sometimes mistaken for his equally rotund belly.
		Tanuki may use this as a drum, to produce confusion or illusions.
	www.youkaimura.org /tanuki.htm (446 words)

	The Slaying of the Tanuki
		So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come by, and when one morning he marched up the road thinking of nothing but the dinner he was going to steal, the peasant threw himself upon him and bound his four legs tightly, so that he could not move.
		The Tanuki, who had no cause to suspect the hare, was greatly pleased to see him, for he noticed the hatchet at once, and began to lay plots how to get hold of it.
		The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the "eaves.
	www.rickwalton.com /folktale/pink06.htm (1939 words)

	Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story is simple yet effective: humans are destroying a community of tanukis, and the tanukis do everything they can to help preserve their home in way of transformation.
		As you probably know, the tanukis are somewhat distractingly called "raccoons" in the dub.
		It's not some minor little piece about tanukis humorously fending off humans, even if it sometimes appears to be.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110008 (720 words)

	Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pompoko@Everything2.com
		The onomatopoeia, 'pompoko pon' (ぽんぽこぽん) is often used to describe the sound of a tanuki's belly.
		While tanukis use their power to play trick on humans, they are considered rather cute and lovable.
		Realizing that the food shortage was caused by the humans, the tanuki decide to band together to stop stop the humans and protect their forest.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=771139 (730 words)

	Japanese Stories (Myth-Folklore Online)
		The fox and the tanuki were very clever, prudent beasts, and they also were skilled in magic, and by this means had escaped the fate of their unfortunate friends.
		As the tanuki had foretold, buyers were many, and the fox handed him over to the person who offered the largest price, and hurried to get some food with the money.
		Directly the tanuki found he was alone, he crept cautiously through a chink of the window, thinking, as he did so, how lucky it was that he was not a fox, and was able to climb.
	www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/japan/pages/03.htm (624 words)

	Anime Tempy
		The tanuki are a race of forest-dwellers who possess the ability to transform into anything (stone, metal, humans… you name it) and have been able to coexist with humans throughout the centuries via their cunning and skills.
		In a small mountain area, a group of Tanuki live and play in comfort and peace, but as the land is slowly destroyed to make way for town development the Tanuki, finding it increasingly harder to live, wage a war against the humans to reclaim their land.
		However, the tanuki soon realize that their efforts of sabotage isn't going to stop the construction, so they plan one big giant illusion, in the hope to stop the constant deforestation that is occurring, before there are no tanuki left.
	www.animetempy.com /reviews/PQRS/pom_poko.htm (1090 words)

	Japan's "racoon-dog" - Bigfoot Forums
		Beware, though, the mistakes that are often made, for "tanuki" is commonly mistranslated as "badger" (an altogether different species); while its English name, "raccoon dog," is the term employed in North America for the dogs used to hunt raccoons (a different species too).
		There is little doubt that the tanuki's habit of living on the fringes of human habitation, where it can benefit both from the fruits of the forest and the fruits of farmland, has led it into encounters with people ever since the latter first settled these islands.
		Tanuki are also un-doglike in various respects other than their diet and living habits.
	www.bigfootforums.com /index.php?showtopic=5197 (1583 words)

	Tanuki - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Tanuki are a race of gigantic racoon dog-men with testicles the size of small moons.
		The Tanuki, known throughout the universe for their governmental and testicle-based luck, landed on the great country of Japan in the year 254.
		Lately, however, Tanuki power in the government has been waning, due to the growth of iPod forces in the Kanto plains.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Tanuki (160 words)

	Kurotokage: Tanuki
		The tanuki is a medium-sized canid (a member of the dog family), limited in range to eastern Asia until human introduction to Europe in the 1900s.
		Tanuki do not like Mythos creatures, and react to POW released by Mythos creatures or leakage from Mythos-related sites as if it were a bad smell.
		The tanuki enabled the Taininhodo to discover the thinner wall between reality and the Dreamlands located in the Abbott's study, and on several occasions warned of increasing Chthonian activity in time for the monks to do something about it.
	www.kurotokage.org /Kurotokage/Tanuki.html (861 words)

	Tanuki FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tanuki or Japanese raccoon faced dog is a real creature living in the region of Japan around the Amur river.
		The Tanuki is also depicted in a fox like form, playing wonderful, crazy and dangerous pranks with his enormous scrotum, which measures in size exactly eight tatami mats.
		Because of its pot belly, the Tanuki is associated with two other figures with large stomachs, the Fugu (blow) fish and Hotei, the fat, hilarious God of Luck.
	www.odanuki.com /Gallery/tanuki.htm (396 words)

	John Baymore at River Bend Pottery : Unglazed Tanuki Figure
		This is an unglazed Tanuki (raccoon dog) holding a sake bottle and a choko.
		The Tanuki character is to the Japanese sort of what the Kokopelli character is to the Native Americans.....
		Tanuki figures abound in Japan as they are thought to bring good luck for businesses.
	www.johnbaymore.com /Tanuki1.htm (156 words)

	Tanuki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most primitive member ofthe canine family, the tanuki is native to Eastern Asia and has been introduced inEurope.
		Tanuki is the only canine that hibernates and moves intowinter and summer ranges.
		Tanuki has short brown or flishlimbs, a heavy body, and rounded ears.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/springbrookhs/asianart/TANUKI.HTML (153 words)

	Japanese Inlaid Wood Tray, Tanuki and Tea Kettle
		Although the tanuki is a real animal that resembles both a badger and raccoon, it is the mythical and magical tanuki which plays such a prominent role in countless Japanese legends and tales.
		Such a tanuki possesses the mystical powers to transform itself into any living or inanimate shape, and this mischievous animal is deeply entrenched in Japanese minds.
		(Both the tanuki and the tea kettle are notable for their pot-bellied middles.) In one version of the tale, a tanuki is helped by a poor man who saved its life, so the tanuki turns into a chagama to help the old man make money.
	www.bandcantiques.com /items/478831/item478831store.html (483 words)

	Tanuki - A Badger posing as Daruma ’K¾éÜ@\@“®•¨U•à
		Next to the fox the Tanuki is seen as a crafty animal with magical powers, but unlike the fearful fox it is quite humorous in its tricks.
		Maybe the most famous story about a tanuki is the Bunbuku Chagama, where a trapped tanuki is freed by a kind man and pays him back his kindness.
		Another type of tanuki pottery has almost the form of a tumbler doll, with the character for good luck, FUKU (•), on his big belly and is made as a garden decoration or a piggy bank.
	www.amie.or.jp /daruma/Tanuki.html (968 words)

	The Crimson Fairy Book - How The Wicked Tanuki Was Punished (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At length some notion of the truth began to dawn on him; but he was careful to let the old tanuki see nothing, though in his own mind he turned over plans from morning till night, wondering how best he might avenge his mother.
		One morning, as the little tanuki was sitting with his father, he remembered, with a start, that his mother had taught him all she knew of magic, and that he could work spells as well as his father, or perhaps better.
		The soldiers, conceiving that their king was being attacked, seized the tanuki by the legs and flung him over into the river, and the water closed over him.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/youth/fantasy/TheCrimsonFairyBook/chap28.html (1020 words)

	Tanukimusic.com - ABOUT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even though there was no specific agreement on what the Tanuki sound would be, they agreed that the goal was to be the strangest and most musically thought-provoking band in town.
		During the summer and autumn of 2003, Tanuki devoted itself to crafting the musical ideas that seemed to orbit around the band.
		Originally conceived as the nucleus for a bigger band including vocals and other instruments, Byrnes, Himes and Frain realized that with a little luck and a lot of hard work they may be able to communicate these ideas themselves.
	www.tanukimusic.com /about.html (688 words)

	Oniko Goes to Japan: Tanuki -- Mischeivious "Racoon Dogs"
		Tanuki are one of the 'monsters' that commonly appears in Japanese TV, movies, and print media, often as a comedy relief sort of character.
		Though often playful, tanuki are also often characterized as theives who use their tricks to steal a good meal from humans.
		For reasons I have yet to uncover, statues of tanuki with enormous scrotums and holding a bottle of saki are very popular in Japan, especially in front of restaurants.
	www.sonic.net /~anomaly/japan/tanuki.htm (802 words)

	Andrew Lang : The Pink Fairy Book : The Slaying of the Tanuki
		Meanwhile the old woman was standing at the mortar pounding the rise that was to serve them for the week with a pestle that made her arms ache with its weight.
		The Tanuki was still feeling angry with the hare about the trick he had played him, but he was weak and very hungry, so he gladly accepted the proposal, and accompanied the hare to the bank of the river, where the two boats were moored, rocked by the waves.
		The Tanuki fell straight into the water, and was held there by the hare till he was quite dead.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.3/bookid.2205/sec.7 (1471 words)

	Pom Poko (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pompoko)
		Takahata's depictions of the tanuki's society are skilfully done and both allow the viewer to rejoice in their eccentricities and to notice the similarities of their faults and virtues to those of human beings.
		The moviegoer thus sees how some of the tanuki are able to adjust to change while others are not, how some, despite their dwindling resources, are incapable of restraining themselves and continue to produce large families, and how many of them want to do hurt to those hurting them.
		The viewer is even presented with depictions of their joyous, drunken festivals and, after significant numbers of the tanuki have begun to despair, of messianic religious movements that lead many of the poor creatures to their deaths.
	www.movierapture.com /pompoko.htm (756 words)

	making a tanuki bonsai
		The word "tanuki" translates from Japanese as "badger," an animal which is regarded in the west as particularly vicious and aggressive.
		In another more x-rated version the tanuki visits a "house of ill repute." One can well imagine what he convinces the residents to provide.
		Like the tanuki of fable, such bonsai are not what they appear to be.
	www.bonsailearningcenter.com /Tips&Advice/tanuki_bonsai.htm (2412 words)

	Posts tagged with tanuki \| MetaFilter
		Technically a member of the canid family and considered to be a species of dog, the raccoon dog, or tanuki, is hunted in Japan to the tune of 70,000 animals killed annually for use in the production of calligraphic brushes, stuffed animals, and, apparently, ramen flavoring.
		The mythical tanuki are full of mischief, masters of shapeshifting, and possessors of unusually large testicles.
		Comic depictions of tanuki often show them with their testicles thrown over their backs or using them as drums.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/tanuki (171 words)

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