26 min
Tanuki Explained Japan Explained
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Happy Halloween everyone!
We started this October with kitsune, and I thought it would be great to finish it with tanuki. So let's see how tanuki and kitsune influenced each other, what tanuki has to do with the 150th anniversary of Japan Railways and how this powerful yokai ended up as a chubby sake-loving goody of today.
Support the show: https://japanexplained.com/#support
More info on https://japanexplained.com/tanuki/
Cover art: @justlavi
Happy Halloween everyone!
We started this October with kitsune, and I thought it would be great to finish it with tanuki. So let's see how tanuki and kitsune influenced each other, what tanuki has to do with the 150th anniversary of Japan Railways and how this powerful yokai ended up as a chubby sake-loving goody of today.
Support the show: https://japanexplained.com/#support
More info on https://japanexplained.com/tanuki/
Cover art: @justlavi
26 min