fox

Fox — a shape-shifting fox.

Tono5 tales

• Tale 21Magozaemon and the Inari foxMagozaemon, who had a scholar's temperament, wishing to grow close to a fox, a shape-shifting fox, and to enrich his family's fortune, built an Inari…
• Tale 60The hunter who was bewitched by a foxOld man Kahei of Wano village was waiting in a pheasant blind when a fox, a shape-shifting fox, appeared again and again to drive the pheasants away.…
• Tale 94Kikuzo who wrestled with a foxKikuzo was passing through the woods of Mount Atago with mochi in his robe, which he had received from his sister's house in Kashiwazaki, when his…
• Tale 100Cutting down a fox disguised as a wifeA fisherman of Funakoshi met a woman who looked like his wife on a night road, believed her to be a monster, and stabbed her to death with a kitchen…
• Tale 101The mystery of a fox that manipulated a dead manA traveler stayed the night at an acquaintance's house in Toyomane village, and a dead person rose up on the floor. When he looked closely, he saw a…

Shiwa District7 tales

• No. 7The priest did itFor the sake of a priest who, every time he got drunk on sake at a parishioner's house, was deceived by a fox, a shape-shifting fox, on his way home…
• No. 12Jingaoka Zaemon and Baba MatsukoAt night, the husband joked about the shape of his wife's hand, and the next morning two samurai appeared, saying they had come to take the wife away…
• No. 20The transformed tea kettleMonjiya no Kichi, who had lost at gambling, met a fox, a shape-shifting fox, near Hodoshima, and gave it red bean rice and herring in exchange for it…
• No. 28Monjiya no KichiMonjiya no Kichi, who seemed to be the heir of a choja, a very rich man, was walking across a field in search of a bride when he came upon foxes…
• No. 29The fox's bride-takingMonjiya no Kichi was asked by the choja, a very rich man, to find him a bride, and he asked the foxes, shape-shifting foxes, to disguise themselves…
• No. 45The otter and the foxA fox, a shape-shifting fox, hungry from the snow, got some fish from an otter. When the fox asked how fish were caught, the otter lied and told it…
• No. 77The fox's Ubako-samaThe fox of Hodoshima, a shape-shifting fox, used leaves and pheasant feathers to turn into a beautiful girl called Ubako-sama, and entered the…

Inaba and Hoki2 tales

• No. 5The shaving courtesanIn Tatsumi Pass in Ketaka District, a fox, a shape-shifting fox, lived and enchanted people, shaving off their heads, and troubled the villagers. At…
• No. 8KyozoboA loyal fox named Kyozobo lived on Mount Kyusho at Tottori castle, and served as the lord's messenger, making the round trip of two hundred ri…