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Title: Tanuki no
amiuchi
Description: A raccoon dog using his scrotum as a throw-net
to catch birds
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Title: Tanuki no ôrai
Description: Raccoon dogs coming and going on the street
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Title: Tanuki no kawagari
Description: Raccoon dogs fishing in a river
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Title: Tanuki no yûdachi
Description: Raccoon dogs sheltering from evening shower
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Title: Tanuki no senkimochi
(せんきもち)
Description: Raccoon dog suffering from senki, a disease that causes
the scrotum to swell
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Title: Tanuki no shichifukujin
(狸の七福神)
Description: Raccoon dogs as five of the seven gods of good
luck
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Title: Tanuki no uranai (狸のうらない)
Description: A raccoon dog as a fortuneteller
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Title: Tanuki no
Kanban (狸のかんばん)
Description: Raccoon dogs using their scrotums as shop signs
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Title: Kindama chikaramochi
Description: Weightlifting
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Title: Namazu hyôtan kintama
Description: Catching a catfish with a gourd
NOTE: In Zen Buddhism, a kôan is a difficult question
to ponder as an aid to meditation. Well known kôan include: What is the sound of one hand clapping?;
When a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it
make a sound?; and How do you catch a catfish with a gourd?
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Title: Tanuki no sumô (狸のすもふ)
Description: Raccoon dogs as sumô wrestlers wearing their
scrotums as sumô
aprons
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Title: Tanuki no
mochi (狸の夜見世)
Description: A night market
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Title: Samugari tanuki
(さむがり狸)
Description: Raccoon dogs sheltering from the cold
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Title: Hatsuuma no tanuki
Description: Raccoon dogs as retailers celebrating the first sale
of the new year by beating on a large drum
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Title: Tanuki no kokintama
Description: A freak-show barker outside a shack where a
raccoon dog with a small scrotum is on exhibition. The customers are elegantly draped with
their own ample scrotums.
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Title: Tanuki no dôke Daruma
Description: A raccoon dog having his scrotum painted in imitation of a
Daruma doll
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Title: Tengu no mane
Description: Raccoon dogs imitating tengu
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Title: Jibiki danuki
Description: Raccoon dogs using their scrotums as a fishing
net
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Title: Tanuki no urisue
Description: A raccoon dog using his scrotum as a sales
gimmick
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Title: Tanuki no hikifune
Description: A raccoon dog using his scrotum as a boat
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The raccoon dog is also known as Nyctereutes procyonoides, magnut and tanuki (タヌキ, 狸, 貍, or たぬき). It is the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes.
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