Ep 73 - Kitsune - Japanese Fox Spirits

In this week’s episode of the Willing & Fable podcast Rowan tells us what she learned about kitsune - Japanese fox spirits that may or may not be up to some mischief. She tells the story of a farmer in search of a wife, but the woman he loves is not who she appears to be.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_%C5%8Ckami

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/kitsune-0012027

“Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present” by Noriko T. Reider

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgpqc.11?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents

Japanese Visual Culture

https://japanesevisualculture.ace.fordham.edu/exhibits/show/yokai--visualizing-the-superna/intro

Stack Exchange

https://mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/213/are-kitsune-and-huli-jing-the-same

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/5933/toyotomi-hideyoshi-threatened-to-exterminate-all-japanese-foxes-unless-he-heard

Japan Objects

https://japanobjects.com/features/kitsune

https://japanobjects.com/features/nihonga

Japan Society

https://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/yokai-fantastic-creatures-of-japanese-folklore

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8130

“The Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi” but Walter Dening

https://archive.org/details/lifetoyotomihid00denigoog/page/n755/mode/2up

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