Studio design: drawn with AI image tools to the iconography of Folk & Fairy, checked against that tradition's rules and approved by a person. Captions are set in real type, never generated. Made to order in the USA.
In Japanese folklore the tanuki is a raccoon dog with a talent for disguise. Stories say it can become a monk, a traveller or even a teakettle by balancing a leaf on its head, though its tail often gives the game away. It drums its round belly under the moon and loves a good party. Today it greets passers-by outside shops and restaurants as the smiling Shigaraki figure, with a straw hat, a ledger and a sake flask, a cheerful charm of good luck.
From The Deity Project, a living encyclopedia of the sacred.
