That tanuki story sounds like a dark version of a Chinese board book I have. Continue if you want to read a slightly more wholesome fox version. So there once was a fox who liked to steal radishes from a farmer. So the farmer set a trap and waited. Once the fox, being a dumb greedy fox, reached his grubby hand into the trap and was caught. The farmer tied him up, and put him in his house above a pot of boiling water (doesn’t specify if he was going to kill him). The farmer’s wife came and was making rice balls and rice porridge. The fox begged her to release him. She refused. He cried and begged, so she finally complied. He took the wooden mallet she was using to knead the dough and beat her down and escaped. The farmer came home with his rabbit friend (sound familiar?) who had brought him some mushrooms. They found the wife on the floor, dazed but ok, next to the spilled rice dough. Furious, the rabbit went outside the fox burrow and started cooking some delicious rice balls over a fire, which lured the fox out. The rabbit told the fox that if he carried some straw for her she would give him some food. Behind him, she beat some rocks together, sparking and lighting the straw on fire. The fox slowly began to feel hotter, then started jumping about screaming. Bunny gave him some balm, which was really painful. So the rabbit took him fishing. The fox decided that he would take the bigger clay boat, but it broke apart in the middle of the sea. The rabbit lectured him and beat him on the head for good measure with her oar, but then pulled him up once he promised that he changed. She took him back to the farmer, where they all had rice balls and the fox never stole radishes again. The End.
@@lyndsaybrown8471 Sounds like the Rabbits retold the story to make the Kitsuni look bad. 🤔 If you switch the roles of the Rabbit and Fox and end the story with, "And then the Rabbit went onto tell everyone this story, except by putting the blame on the Fox." it would would all make sense.
When you realize The Japanese Raccoon Dog can fit well in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender wherein the animals are combined Animals like Aardvark Sloth, Armadillo Lion, Boar-Q-Pine, Buzzard Wasp, Koala Sheep, and etc.
Preliminary thought: When I saw the blurred designs I thought at first they were special edition scrotumed charms that @linfamy had to blur or else be demonetized.
@@VictoriaMeira7 it's been a while since I last heard it so I might get some details wrong, but it's the story about a giant fish that was causing earthquakes, so a hero (or maybe a god, I don't remember) defeated it by pinning it down with a rock in the same way the tanuki pinned it down. he then trapped him in a circle of rocks.
supplement: It is as mentioned in the video about the tanuki folklore. Then why did thetanuki figure spread all over Japan? Some tanuki figure was made by a potter who lived in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. One day, Emperor Hirohito visited Shigaraki Town. He was impressed by the tanuki figure and wrote haiku. The news spreaded all over Japan, and tanuki figure in Shigaraki sold explosively. The act of putting a tanuki figure in front of a store was born very recently.
I thought I had already seen the craziest tanuki woodblock paintings out there (like the fishing net one), but you, sir, have educated me today. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. Thank you for this video!
Bakedanuki" is a youkai of the raccoon dogs transmitted to Japan, and it is said that it is said that humanbeings are hanging around and turning them into human figures. There are too many such folktales to count Among the ghosts that appear in folktales in various parts of Japan, three famous foxes are said to be three famous raccoon dogs of youkai in Japan ・Sado Danzaburo (Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture) ・Awaji Shibaemon (Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture) ・Yashima Taizaburo (Yashima, Kagawa)
You were very close with the gold thing! Metal workers would use tanuki scrotums to cushion gold when they hammered it into shape. Tanuki leather was placed on a hard surface, and the gold would be hammered on top of that, because it created a smooth surface the metal material could be spread on. Because gold is much softer than most metals, it needed the gentler surface to be handled. And, of course, after being used for a really long time, you would have this stretched out tanuki scrotum left over.
Me: *[tries to be open-minded and scholarly and not consider Japanese culture to be incredibly weird sometimes]* Japan: *[invents a magical raccoon/bear/dog thing with huge testicles that can be molded into nearly any shape]* Me: *O_O* ( EDIT: This comment got a heart from Linfamy, Senpai noticed me! *UwU* )
Holy shit I've learned alot watching your stuff alot of things in anime or manga that reference this stuff made no sense to me but know the history and context makes it easier. Thanks I appreciate your work
A fun video!! With many wonderful artworks and a superb presentation of the very popular kid's song in Japan! (The scientology meeting? Really?) And the story, かちかち山. Those たぬき related things are so familiar to us that we do not realize how they are strange and weird. (I grew up in Shiga, not far from Shigaraki (信楽) where all those lovable Tanuki clay figures are made. And I am proud of it.)
The 'Scrum' (I need to show this to the scrum master at work!), the 'Scroat', the mochi, the 'whacking the whale' one and the 'Softshell turtles' had me in stitches and that segment alone was good for at least 8 rewinds, so it takes me way more than 10 minutes to watch this video. 😆
"Even I can't do that." Word. And it makes sense, that association with money. "If my coin purse is that big, I must be a very rich man." Sympathetic magic. I cite Randy Marsh and the microwave oven. Anyone would be sympathetic if they tripped over their junk while running. Or bouncing along, pretty as you please.
What about the Mujina? They often get confused with Tanuki in Japan. Magic badgers need more love. And while you’re at it, don’t forget the itachi, ten, and kawauso! Weasels, martens and otters don’t get enough media coverage, either.
Me: Linfamy: Tanuki represent wealth, are cheap, really rotund due to a love of sake, food, partying and they're lucky... also they have huge balls. Me, an intellectual: You mean Tanuki=Americans? XD
That was hilarious! 😂 I never knew there were so many euphemisms for scrotum. 😁 By the way, tanukis figure quite a lot in Tom Robbins' novel Villa Incognito.
Thank you very much your video showed up on my feed just at the right time my younger sister had asked you a question about a picture of a ton of key I had sent her standing next to a tea Rex on top of a building in sakai Japan. And your song also brought back memories of when I was a college student miss behaving at a Japanese restaurant in Raleigh North Carolina. At the time I hadn’t realized that this song was not a good drinking song, I also had not realize that the waitress was a friend of a girl who stood me up for a date a few days later. The early 80s thanks for the memory and answering my sisters question
I think it’s really cool how Japanese mythical shapeshifters can’t shape-shift effortlessly, thus some yokai can be easily spotted even when they attempt a disguise.
As soon as I won one of these you are making new ones. Huh. 😁 I'm not on Insta but, just for the lolz, one of the three is Amaterasu throwing her glowing sun daggers I guess?
Ah 10 minutes of complete and random strangers all laughing at euphemisms for ballsack. I expect nothing less from this corner of the internet, and you delivered perfectly
Tanuki! Get this sticker happening, Senseifamy. Also, consider two merch ideas: Sticker sets, so folks can avoid the multiple shipping charges when buying multiples; and some way to link spending at the merch shop to Patreon benefits. I know the second would be complicated, as the platforms aren't linked, but you're brilliant.
@@Linfamy I have to believe that in your stable of supporters, possibly local to wherever you live, a few folks might come hang out, pack up a grip sticker sets, earning one or two and helping spread your msg. Maybe that's a Patreon benefit? I want to buy more merch; I want to avoid stacked shipping charges. I can't be alone in this. Regardless, you, your work, your channel: All are dope.
