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Visual depiction of Tanuki

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Tanuki

Japanese shape-shifting trickster


a raccoon dog in a straw hat with an enormous belly drum, transforming into anything from a teapot to a wealthy merchant

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
trickster

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.