{"id":2444,"date":"2009-07-09T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:19:52","slug":"tanuki-%e7%8b%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/tanuki-%e7%8b%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanuki (\u72f8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_1847.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_1847-654x800.jpg\" alt=\"\u72f8 \u30bf\u30cc\u30ad tanuki raccoon dog\" title=\"\u72f8 \u30bf\u30cc\u30ad tanuki raccoon dog\" width=\"654\" height=\"800\" align=left><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until recently I thought tanuki (usually rendered in katakana, \u30bf\u30cc\u30ad, in Japan) were a mythological creature. It turns out there are real raccoon dogs in Japan although I haven&#8217;t seen one. The renditions you see in, and in front of, shops in Japan don&#8217;t look much like the real thing though. The real thing looks pretty much like a raccoon.<\/p>\n<p>My kids really liked the tanuki statues they encountered frequently in Japan. So much so that <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/fushimi-inari-taisha-\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u5927\u793e-the-end\/>we purchased one<\/a>, and it has rested on my son&#8217;s shelf at home in Oregon ever since.<\/p>\n<p>During the past week Gail has posted a couple of well-crafted blog entries dealing with a part of the tanuki anatomy my kids never recognized as such. For more on tanuki \u91d1\u7389 see her posts <a href=http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/sometimes-japans-little-nuts.html target=_new>here<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/gailsensei.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/tan-tan-tanuki-follow-up.html target=_new>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently I thought tanuki (usually rendered in katakana, \u30bf\u30cc\u30ad, in Japan) were a mythological creature. It turns out there are real raccoon dogs in Japan although I haven&#8217;t seen one. The renditions you see in, and in front of, shops in Japan don&#8217;t look much like the real thing though. The real thing looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[176,593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15440,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}