What does the fox say?!

Holly and Chelsea find out in this week's episode focusing on the Japanese kitsune, or fox god. Hear all about how these adorable, powerful creatures became synonymous with Japanese culture, permeating all areas of life from religion to architecture to literature and more for centuries.

​Sources:

• 5 Great Kitsune Anime for Fans of the Nine-Tailed Fox
• 6 Things to Know About the Inari Fox in Japanese Folklore
• The 10 Best Fox Pokemon, ranked
• A ‘Killing Stone’ Broke in Japan. Is a Demon on the Loose? NYTimes article by Mike Ives and Makiko Inoue March 18, 2022
• ​All About Kitsune
• Bathgate, Michael. The Fox’s Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.
• “Inari,” Encyclopedia Britannica
• Kitsune- from The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters
• Kitsune in Popular Culture
• Kurama- Narutopedia
• Ortabasi, Melek. “(Re)animating Folklore: Raccoon Dogs, Foxes, and Other Supernatural Japanese Citizens in Takahat Isao’s Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko,” Marvels & Tales, 27.2 2013.
• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman & Yoshiaka Amano
• ​“Shinto” and “Buddhism” from The Encyclopedia of World Religions by the Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 2006.

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng