The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie

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Dive into the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting tanuki, as the raccoon-like creature rewards a traveling salesman for his kindness.
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On the dusty roads of a small village, a traveling salesman was having difficulty selling his wares. As he wandered the outskirts of town in the hopes of finding some new customers, he heard a high-pitched yelp coming from the edge of the forest. Following the screams to their source, he discovered a trapped tanuki. Iseult Gillespie details the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting creature.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Anna Samo.
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@TEDEd Год назад

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@sarad2487 9 месяцев назад

Ok btw first

@alexandermarsh918 3 года назад

Tenuki: can shapeshift into a teapot Also Tenuki: can't escape a hunting trap *visible confusion*

@primeroyal7434 3 года назад

Maybe it was a test who knows?

@tallymark2417 3 года назад

It couldn’t reach

@TotallyNotSena 3 года назад

@@tallymark2417 The thing could literally turn into a metal kettle, so why not turn into a statue made out of rock? He could just break the damn thing. It was probably a test to see how the salesman would react, and after seeing his kindness he tried to repay him. Weird way tho, lmao

@biomedcraze 3 года назад

His hand was stuck so he couldn't pull his... (you know)...

@elbowsbuns1896 3 года назад

@@biomedcraze the tanuki had another hand to grab their balls

@ind0266 3 года назад

It seems like Tom nook is back to shenanigans again.

@PatrickLofstrom 3 года назад

Bells, balls, it's all the same to the Nook 🔔

@ind0266 3 года назад

@@kennethsoriano4895 awe thank you

@calebmurray4438 3 года назад

Oh Tom Nook, always flying with his thicc dump truck and pulling on his balls.

@ind0266 3 года назад

@@calebmurray4438 that’s where he strokes the bells you give him.

@janaikean1028 3 года назад

Ah yes, Nook the Crook

@will__mem9rno 3 года назад

"he heard story of shape shifting tanuki who transformed by puling on their t-" NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE!!!!

@PatrickLofstrom 3 года назад

IT'S A TRAP!

@WeldonSirloin 3 года назад

Very relatable tbh

@ap4702 3 года назад

@@WeldonSirloin relatable!?

@HayTatsuko 3 года назад

Hold on with BOTH PAWS or it ain't gonna work, yo!

@will__mem9rno 3 года назад

@@HayTatsuko you aren't speaking from experience...right?

@personone1382 3 года назад

This is just one giant ancient wholesome meme. i am tanuki i get trapped salesman got my back i become kettle and salesman get money but i too hot and i squirm become tanuki i tell salesman and monke they laugh we frens

@arielll1161 3 года назад

i like

@personone1382 3 года назад

@@arielll1161 me work hard make poem ariel say like me happy 🧡🥺

@priyanshmehta5668 3 года назад

@@personone1382 me happy bcoz u happy We happy, all happy

@personone1382 3 года назад

@@priyanshmehta5668 happ! :D

@eleanorrigby7897 3 года назад

This made mii happ. T H A N N K ❤️🥺

@llfn1718 3 года назад

I always want to know what the animation process is like. The designs are so beautiful 😍

@FrostyInUse 3 года назад

Same

@ultimatebishoujo29 3 года назад

I know right?

@anadraguleanu8710 3 года назад

Me too.

@Vagolololo 3 года назад

Yes! I would love a behind the scenes of the animation studio. Although I presume that it is not just one.

@guadalupeestrada410 3 года назад

They have several guest animators I think. So look for them in the credits and search for them as needed and maybe one of them describes their process in their own channel or outside of RU-vid

@tekuaniaakab2050 3 года назад

Rocket Rackoon’s backstory is weirder than I expected

@ultimatebishoujo29 3 года назад

Lol

@parkerhynson3581 3 года назад

Actually, I think this is his cousin.

@elofkjellson3906 3 года назад

Rocket is a raccoon, not a raccoon dog. Lol

@arandomhewo7966 3 года назад

@@elofkjellson3906 no, he *was* a raccoon dog, he just transformed into a raccoon forever

@irfanismailyowo8273 Год назад

#boycottmarvel sruperhero

@SuperSongbird21 2 года назад

According to one version of this story that I read, the tanuki reverted to his kettle form on the day he died and the monks kept the kettle as a relic in their temple in memory of him. Supposedly you can still see it today.

@BambinaSaldana Год назад

The specific tanuki is also a really good skateboarder.

@dauny08 3 месяца назад

that's temple is Gunma prefecture

@Shghgdhjj Месяц назад

@@BambinaSaldana in that Google doodles yea

@Comocutiepie Месяц назад

That sounds so sad 😢

@Comocutiepie Месяц назад

@@BambinaSaldana True

@alejandrapedroza14 3 года назад

I knew about the shapeshifter tanukis that trick people so I was like "noooo, salesman!" but it ended up being so sweet, the tanuki endured the polishing and the burning just to return the favor, that's so sweet!

@mohamedlaqin 3 года назад

2:06 The narrator bursts out there lol

@eddvcr598 2 года назад

Growing up in Japan, I heard and read many stories of the mischievous but endearingly clumsy tanukis. I love them so much!

@wot_1505 3 года назад

Doremon: I'm not a Raccoon I'm a cat robot

@hiruzenmonofuke7344 3 года назад

Doraemom owo

@scuffedpixel 3 года назад

Doraemon owo

@srijanumesh5355 3 года назад

Doraemon 0w0

@artography4185 3 года назад

Doraemon owo

@june756 3 года назад

DORAEMON 0w0

@darkhound6461 3 года назад

Ah that doremon episode, how nostalgic.

@june756 3 года назад

Yeaa .. My first thought was about doraemon

@foreigner2982 3 года назад

Prepare for upcoming birrage of likes.

@sowmyaroysuroju651 3 года назад

@@june756 same 😄

@Manowar458 3 года назад

What episode

@shreyasp3287 3 года назад

It's not a racoon it's a robot cat

@faraz9641 3 года назад

I think that's why those guys in the past were so afraid of doraemon...anyone?no?

@hiruzenmonofuke7344 3 года назад

Yes doreamon the raccoon. Shhhhhhhhhhh Is a cat robot.

@srijanumesh5355 3 года назад

Ahhh I remember that episode

@june756 3 года назад

Yaa now that's make sense

@notathletic4171 3 года назад

@@hiruzenmonofuke7344 curse you.

@oishd6077 3 года назад

@@srijanumesh5355 it's a shame that i don't remember which episode you are talking about even when i had 1/2 my childhood meals watching Doraemon 😳😭

@kristopherbruns7674 3 года назад

Fun fact: Tanuki are a magical version of the real world animal the Jappanese Racoon dog , a canine that has fur similar to Racoon.

@elofkjellson3906 3 года назад

Actually, that is just the Japanese word for the animal. It is also the Japanese word for the common raccoon, which is why there is always so much confusion.

@Chameleonradio 2 года назад

@@popn6189 Really? I've only heard raccoons referred to as "Araiguma" instead. If you see Tanuki, it's pretty hard to mistake them for each other. Tanuki are much much rounder. I got to a see a few at a local zoo once--they even had an albino Tanuki. Pretty rad.

@macdjord 3 года назад

Bold of you to assume I don't want to cuddle Loki.

@MyMooha 3 года назад

"For tales of a trickster you're less likely to want to cuddle-" _I absolutely want to cuddle Loki and he definitely needs a cuddle anyway_

@mangomations 2 года назад

Me too! 💚💚💚

@theghostofuchiha1496 2 года назад

I mean he's gonna fire Mistletoe at you... But okk

@sarad2487 9 месяцев назад

*w h a t*

@freyavine6448 3 года назад

I think some western authors who weren't familiar with tanuki would translate it as "badger". So if you're reading an old translation of a japanese folktale and it's about a badger, especially if it's a trickster or a shape-changing badger, it's probably actually a tanuki.

@reetushree3129 3 года назад

Its fascinating how TED Ed uses different kinds of animation for different videos. It's rarely the same

@cinnamonxguy 3 года назад

"Shape-shifting Tanuki who transformed by pulling on their testicles" Uhmm..💀💀

@gumbitoicic9977 3 года назад

Yeah...

@kukothree 3 года назад

It can also shape its giant testicles into boats targets, and etc. Sorry I just made it weirder... oops 😅

@navedhasan4632 3 года назад

@@kukothree you yourself are wierd

@kukothree 3 года назад

@@navedhasan4632 Thank you :)

@HayTatsuko 3 года назад

Not as painful as it sounds. Apparently every tanuki lad comes with the power of the Gum-Gum Fruit built right in!

@nadine.1105 3 года назад

This is actually really sweet and wholesome!

@Unicorn-dx8pw 3 года назад

Ikr

@veryberry39 3 года назад

I love this narrator's voice. I'm always happy when I find she's narrating one.

@ultimatebishoujo29 3 года назад

Me too

@marianocolsin8968 3 года назад

This remember me Pompoko (war of the Tanuki) from ghibli studios. A great movie they remind us that these incredible animals, mágica or not, are endangered because of the human activity

@user-ne3kj4ys7i 3 года назад

you can see "tanuki" apparing in many anime or japanese games. for example "Doraemon", "Mario(tanuki-mario)", "Animal crossing(Tom Nook)", "Demon-slayer(a main character imitates tanuki during the show)" or some Ghibli's movies.

@june756 3 года назад

Yess ..

@nabila_tanzim 3 года назад

Amazing. I have heard the name Tanuki in The Google Doodle Champion Island Game for the very first time. How amazingly Google has made that doodle along with Studio 4°C! That's an amazing approach to let the non-Japanese people know about Japanese culture, appreciate it

@johnny_boi5456 3 года назад

Yep

@harshvardhan4766 2 года назад

actually most of the fiction is from Japanese culture those who watch doraemon can understand

@saadtanzim9800 2 года назад

@@harshvardhan4766 Umm. I have watched Doraemon(I still do), not all were from Japanese culture. Even I can even remember a Egyptian story (dividing the Neil river, story of Musa(PBUH)/Moses).

@belle2515 3 года назад

fact: tanukis (not raccoons) have really big balls lmao

@q-miiproductions878 3 года назад

Their balls aren't even that big in real life.

@allstarpterosaur850 3 года назад

フルーツケーキ and tanukis are actually canines, more often called “raccoon dogs”.

@StarBoundFables 2 года назад

Tanuki are so awesome 😃 I have heard of them before Thank you, Ted-Ed, for reminding us of this magical creature 🙏🏽

@HayTatsuko 3 года назад

I love the animation style used in this, and getting to re-hear one of the nicest tanuki stories around. Fun fact: tanukis are canids whose closest living relatives are true foxes. They aren't closely related to raccoons.

@waranontwiwaha9385 3 года назад

Fun fact: Tanuki is actually not raccoon at all. It’s actually a type of dog relative called raccoon dog which only looks like a raccoon because it has mask on its face.

@starcloak 3 года назад

Absolutely love the animation. Love Japanese folklore/myths. Keep up the good work ❤

@pitalovr 3 года назад

Tom Nook: the origin story

@susangardini8161 3 года назад

LOL

@Enuvrack 3 года назад

I love stories about grateful spirits rewarding kind people. They're just as important as the ones about punishing cruel humans.

@skyb994 3 года назад

i just finished the whole playlist of myths by ted ed and i enjoyed it so much:D i thought it was only composed of greek mythology but i obviously was wrong. and i enjoyed all of the stories from different parts of the world. it made me fond of the thought of how different everything is yet, so similar. the story, the narration, the animation are just *chef's kiss*. it taught me a lot of things too. i'll always enjoy ted ed no matter what day or time it is. and when i get older, i'll try my best to support you through patreon xd. anyways, good job ted ed:D

@saeyi8961 2 года назад

The animations are always the main things I enjoy when watching these videos :D

@hourscience 3 года назад

I am impressed with the mythic videos due to their interesting stories.

@camiloiribarren1450 3 года назад

Very wholesome story and great ending. Thank you

@prize5ighter 3 года назад

As a kid, I became aware of the racoon story while watching Doraemon 😂 Thank you Ted-Ed for reminding me of my childhood

@ashenen2278 3 года назад

And yes.... Tanukis aren't racoons, they're racoon dogs. Those are totally different animals

@q-miiproductions878 3 года назад

Hence why they say "raccoon-like creatures".

@HayTatsuko 3 года назад

Tanukis are most closely related to true foxes; they are canids, not procyonids. There is a relationship, but it's very, very distant. As a set of species, tanukis and other raccoon-dogs broke away from other canids about 9 million years ago. They've seen some things, and done some stuff, y'all. Yes, tanukis are even separate from continental raccoon-dogs, as they have different numbers of chromosomes than the others. The Japanese version is _Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus_ -- and it will almost certainly end up becoming a species of its own at some point, once the taxonomists get their ducks in a row.

@ashenen2278 3 года назад

@@HayTatsuko I'm totally aware of racoon dogs being closely related to true foxes.

@ashenen2278 3 года назад

@@HayTatsuko And yes, defining a species just for being in some degree genetically different or close is kind of not very plausible. The definition of species is not a simple one, at least to say. Dogs, for example, are considered to be the same species as wolves, but some would say they're different species. And yes, taxonomy is really not usable in modern systematics like phylogeny. Defining families and orders helps nothing

@kamalindsey 3 года назад

And yes, ackshully.

@guangruixia 3 года назад

Beautiful animation and amazing narration!

@arcie3716 Год назад

The whole myth is such a beautiful story

@riesenflugzeug 3 года назад

2:15 WHAT

@huonghayley 3 года назад

The animation is incredible, any frame makes a beautiful picture

@harryiguana1761 3 года назад

I have to say all Ted-Ed animations are phenomenal

@Elsisalittleconcerned 3 года назад

Imagine you try to make some tea and a raccoon dog starts running around saying he wanted to pay you back but being roasted wasn’t part of the original plan.

@axtapal2503 2 года назад

We had this story in school, good to see it again :)

@Shreya.21714 3 года назад

I love te-ed it is always so fun to learn with these beautiful animations

@midimusicforever 3 года назад

Haha, Japanese Loki is really cool!

@manavsaboo9610 2 года назад

I love how these videos are short and can be watched without guilt :)

@user-yj4vt3qp4v 3 года назад

英語は所々しか聞き取れないけど、アニメですぐに話が分かった！このお話は分福茶釜（ぶんぷくちゃがま）という日本で古くから伝わるおとぎ話です。日本ではタヌキやキツネが化けるお話がいっぱい伝わっています。まさかこのお話を世界中の人が聞く時代が来るとはびっくりです。

@strawberry_creamz 3 года назад

I hope you guys will do the myth of the kit sune! I love all of these myths, keep going on video’s.

@mryellow4633 3 года назад

The Japanese tanuki, also known as a raccoon-dog and are not related to the western raccoon. Tanuki are in the canidae family along with foxes, wolves, coyotes, dogs.

@blink-oncefeat.multistan1300 3 года назад

me: *reading the captoion* Also me: TONY TONY CHOPPER!!! 🤣

@b0gdyb0ta 3 года назад

Great story, thank you.

@Meow_yj 3 года назад

Animation is so beautiful !

@Sanee650 3 года назад

This is soooooo cute such a beautiful wholesome story 🥺🥺

@jessk7333 Год назад

I had a book about this. I like it!❤😊

@captainpalegg2860 3 года назад

Nothing could have possibly prepared me for that opening quote.

@thewhovianhippo7103 3 года назад

i rember this from when i was younger and doremon it funny when you hear about a myth from your country well my mum's

@ayak2268 3 года назад

I saw this video randomly. I was so surprised. This is the old tale of my area. I've been to 'Morin-Ji'

@ultimatebishoujo29 3 года назад

Awesome video!!!

@gift4413 3 года назад

WHEN IT SAID HOW THEY TRANSFORMED I NEARLY SPIT MY DRINK OUT ON MY SCREEN

@madisonsageong1234 2 года назад

wonderful. I like myths, especially the norse ones

@WhoisSupernerd 3 года назад

0:21 The neckline of both layer of his clothes should be 'y' shaped, called 右衽.

@omarsalem1219 Год назад

When your so used to greek mythology that a wholesome myth about a trickster animal that has a happy ending feels wrong to you

@abdirahimali9764 3 года назад

Pretty good thanks ted

@angtasp3640 3 года назад

The animation, always surprises me!

@manpreetsharma5695 3 года назад

So useful 🙏👍

@melissap5418 3 года назад

I finally found this channel! I’ve searched for so long...

@oishd6077 3 года назад

Welcome to this amazing channel!

@abthedragon4921 3 года назад

Enjoy the amazing content

@ineptireplica1548 3 года назад

Leave while you still can before they trick you to LEARN

@namelesssoul104 3 года назад

As an anime lover, I was excited seeing this video on my recommendation..... i have heard about the tanuki folklores.....they have such folklores about foxes and tigers and obviously cats.

@sadie1606 2 года назад

What a cute tale!

@loliochinchin2158 3 года назад

I don't know why but this scene looks cute 0:47

@vaishnavaramjass 3 года назад

Myth are so awesome there like old science. It shows how certain scientific phenomenons were explained by persons who were uneducated. They are culturally important. It shows us about our history and helps us understand ourselves.

@kharijordan6426 3 месяца назад

Ok, this was wholesome. Going to the history of the East iv heard too many horrific true and fake stories... it's kinda refreshing to hear something as nice as this.