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Date Name Thumbnail Size Description
01:48, 4 April 2008 ShunsenMamedanuki.jpg (file) 129 KB Mamedanuki 豆狸, a tanuki with distended scrotum; from the ''Ehon Hyaku Monogatari'' 絵本百物語, c. 1841. Art by Takehara Shunsen 竹原春泉.
01:43, 4 April 2008 Tanuki.gif (file) 118 KB Tanuki 狸, ''Nyctereutes procyonoides'', small raccoon-faced canines native to Japan, which feature prominently in folklore.
01:34, 16 March 2007 Tabi to densetsu.jpg (file) 10 KB An issue of the early folklore studies periodical, ''Tabi to densetsu'', or "Travels and Legends", established by Yanagita Kunio.
01:33, 16 March 2007 Yanagita Kunio.jpg (file) 35 KB Yanagita Kunio, folklore and ethnology pioneer. Image from the Archives Section of Kokugakuin University; taken from http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/media.php?media_id=709
12:39, 3 March 2007 Susa no O.gif (file) 138 KB "Susa no O and Inadahime", by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
12:43, 22 February 2007 Bakemono.gif (file) 146 KB Ending scene to the folktale "Shitakiri Suzume" or "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", in which a box full of bakemono jump out of a box to scare a greedy old woman to death. Art by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
19:36, 21 February 2007 Yokai.gif (file) 133 KB "Hyakki Yakô" (百鬼夜行) by Kawanabe Kyôsai.