Kitsune are clever shapeshifters who can appear as a human. Today, we’re going to change our own appearances toward a kitsune costume.
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The Second Day of Kitsune — Shift Your Shape with a Kitsune Costume
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The First Day of Kitsune – a folk tale
For the First Day of Kitsune, I’d like to share one of the oldest and most common folk stories about a kitsune. It’s a tale of a fox wife, similar to Western stories of fairy brides, and it features many of the key points in the kitsune legend.
It’s also a story the village girl Murame hears in Kitsune-Mochi, which prompts her to do some deep thinking….
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Warning! Here there be spoilers, in great measure. Also, plot dissection and narrative breakdown.
Twelve Days of Kitsune!
VA Tag: KITSUNE (Photo credit: shawnblog)
Christmas is one of my favorite holidays — but it wasn’t exactly popular during Heian and Kamakura eras in Japan, for obvious reasons. So here on the blog we’re going to celebrate Twelve Days of Kitsune, and each post we’ll discover a new folk tale, period foods, or other fun surprises related to Kitsune-Tsuki and Kitsune-Mochi.
Watch for the first post in the series on Monday!
Happy Halloween!
So this is what was waiting for me when I flew home through Hurricane Sandy turbulence and walked in the front door.
Isn’t that grand? My husband rocks.
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