Badgers / Tanuki

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.. .. .. .. .. .. Badgers, the Tanuki in my Garden





I call this picture:
Five Buddhas and one Tanuki


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risshun ya tanuki no koi no nioi kana

.. .. .. .. .. .. first spring day -
.. .. .. .. .. .. the smell of badger's love
.. .. .. .. .. .. in the fields


Fruehlingsbeginn <>
der Geruch von liebestollen Dachsen
in den Feldern


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neko no koi, the * love of cats * is a kigo for the spring season, but this morning, walking up to the mailbox the whole place was drenched with the incredible poingnant smell of tanuki, our badger friends.

So I made * tanuki no koi * as my very own kigo today.
February 4, 2004

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Read my Stories about Tanuki and Daruma san:
http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/Tanuki.html


Tanuki 狸 ... A Badger posing as Daruma
... and the Tanuki Scrotum, kintama 金玉

Bishamonten Tanuki ... Bishamon Tanuki 毘沙門狸
Bishamonten Tanuki Daruma Doll


Read
Mark Schumacher about the .. 　。。Tanuki.


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KIGO


***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Winter
***** Category: animal


tanuki 狸 (たぬき) racoon dog, badger
tanoki たのき
Nyctereutes procyonoides
mujina 狢（むじな）, badger
anagumaアナグマ（あなぐま） badger
Meles meles


The Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides, from the Greek words nycto-, "night"; ereutes, "wanderer"; procyon, "raccoon"; and the suffix -oid) is a member of the canid family (which includes dogs, wolves, and foxes) and is indigenous to east Asia. It is the only extant species in its genus Nyctereutes. It is considered a basal canid species, resembling ancestral forms of the family. The Raccoon Dog is named for its resemblance to the raccoon (Procyon lotor), to which it is not closely related.
The Raccoon Dog is native to China, Korea, Japan, and southeastern Siberia.
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