1. Tale Of The Nine Tailed Fox

Tale Of The Nine Tailed Fox

'Kitsune' (pronounced 'kee-tsoo-neh') is the Japanese word for fox, but it can also refer to a type of in note 'bake-gitsune' (' fox') refers to this variety in particular, but the term hasn't picked up much outside Japan. To be more precise, in Japanese folklore, all foxes are supernatural, the 'normal' ones are simply too young to have developed their powers yet, an fox creature with magical powers, including (particularly ),.

Nine-Tailed Fox is a Boss in Nioh. The nine-tailed fox is a fox-based yokai that has lived for over a thousand years and possesses strong magical powers. Foxes that mysteriously obtain magical powers become yokai, and then longer the fox has lived the stronger it's powers become, with the number of tails it possesses increasing as well. Ahri is based on the kumiho, a creature from Korean folklore. A kumiho is a nine-tailed fox who can transform freely into, among other things, a beautiful woman that sets out to seduce males in efforts to eat their heart or their liver, depending on which version of the legend is told.

In fox form, they tend to grow additional tails as they get older, up to nine in total (known as Kyūbi no Kitsune.)While their mythological origins have them as divine servants and even, they're also classic who mess with mortals for giggles. They usually play their pranks on men, while they have a tendency to women (which shows up as an actual psychological disorder in Japan, similar to elsewhere). This is probably because, for some reason, they're usually female (or at least ), and often end up falling in love with and marrying human men (in fact, female Kitsune are considered to make devoted wives and doting mothers). The resulting children are usually not kitsune themselves, but have magical powers. Modern fiction tends to use these prominently; anime as a familiar staple whenever mythology is in the picture, while Western writers often note the similarity between them and and use them for similar purposes.

Either way, they're likely to be seen a lot in human form, for. Alternately, they'll spend most or all time in fox form, though their shapeshifting usually gets at least a nod.Additional fun fact: Kitsune are common for Japanese character types, often existing in a relationship with (with tanuki as the slobs and kitsune as the snobs).

In fact, in Japan women are considered to be 'tanuki-faced' (square/round) or 'kitsune-faced' (inverted triangle / heart-shaped), the latter being considered sexier, so to call a Japanese woman fox-faced is looked upon as paying them a very sultry compliment. Like many elements of Japanese culture, China and Korea also have variations on the Kitsune myth, namely the Chinese Huli Jing ('Fox Spirit'), and Jiuweihu ('Nine-tailed fox'); the Korean version is the Gumiho or kumiho ('Nine-tailed Fox'); given the nature of other cross-cultural similarities between these three countries, it can be inferred that the Huli Jing was the that served as the basis of Japan and Korea's version.

Of course,; for example, the Korean Gumiho / Kumiho are (generally). Although folklore often treats them as synonymous, it's probably a good idea to know the difference between the three.

See for details.Fortunately, all three fox typesSee also,. Is the supertrope.Examples. has Kitsune the who is a wily fox but not a magical one, a fake kitsune in the background of and two real kitsune who teach Gen a lesson. 's is an adaptation of for Japanese audiences.

One of the three sons of the has a wife who is. She has her husband send his right hand man off to kill a rival woman and return with her head encased in salt. The would-be assassin and returns telling a tall tale about how he beheaded a kitsune. He opens his satchel and reveals the head of a kitsune statue, then curses the 'demon' who got away, likes to disguise itself as a beautiful woman, and seeks to corrupt and ruin men.

The wife reacts with fury. Sadly, the. The 2008 Chinese film Painted Skin stars a malicious nine-tailed huli jing named Xiao Wei, who maintains her youthful human form by eating men's hearts, but who falls in love with a human general who saves her life. She conspires to take the place of his wife, and nearly succeeds, but ultimately sacrifices her power in order to undo the damage she caused.

In the sequel, set 500 years later, she escapes the glacier she was and conspires to by getting a human to willfully give her their heart during, initiating a love triangle between herself, a with a, and the princess' to accomplish this. Witch from the 2013 film is a malevolent kitsune with heterochromia who serves as to the main antagonist. One of the most famous kitsune in Japanese folklore is Kuzunoha, the mother of the astrologer/onmyouji Abe no Seimei. According to legend, a noble named Abe no Yasuna was travelling to Shinoda shrine when he came across a hunter who had trapped a white fox, intending to harvest its liver for medicine. Yasuna fought off the hunter and freed the fox, but was wounded in the process. A beautiful young woman named Kuzunoha appeared and helped him to his home, and they eventually married and had a son, Seimei. Eventually, Kuzunoha is revealed to be the fox that Yasuna saved, but due to her true nature having been revealed she must return to the forest.

She leaves a poem asking Yasuna and Seimei to come find her, and it is revealed she is the kami of Shinoda shrine, bestowing Seimei with the. The and occasionally tripartite kami Inari has white kitsune as servants, and is often depicted as being one - though this is discouraged by Shinto and Buddhist priests. Due to Inari's close association with kitsune, shrines and temples dedicated to them have statues of foxes wearing red votive bibs. Warring States period warlord Shingen Takeda is said to have caused the downfall of his clan by forcibly marrying a kitsune in human form. Their son, Katsuyori, was defeated at the Battle of Nagashino by Nobunaga Oda and Ieyasu Tokugawa, leading to the effective end of the Takeda clan.

During the Edo period, Japanese artist and printmaker syncretized several famous legends featuring malevolent fox spirits from Japan, China, and India to form a single narrative:. In Chinese folklore, was a woman possessed by a sadistic nine-tailed fox who became the favorite consort of King Zhou of Shang, and brought about the downfall of his dynasty to the point that fox cults were outlawed in China. Hokusai expanded the narrative by drawing from the Hindu legend of and stating that after her plot was uncovered, Daji fled China for India, where she resumed her activities under the name Lady Kayō, concubine of Prince Banzoku - who she corrupted into a cannibalistic tyrant. She later returned to China as, becoming the concubine of King You of Zhou before fleeing to Japan as Tamamo-no-Mae. is a commonly referenced kitsune myth.

It tells of a beautiful fortune teller named Tamamo-no-Mae who could answer any question, and whose. The Emperor Konoe fell in love with her and made her one of his courtesans, but after several years the Emperor fell seriously ill. Eventually, Abe no Yasuchika, an, told him that Tamamo was a kitsune that had been poisoning him on the orders of an evil daimyo hoping to usurp the throne - though whether she was doing so willingly depends on the version being told. Her identity exposed, Tamamo fled, and the Emperor sent Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke, the two most powerful warriors in Japan, to kill her.

Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke tracked Tamamo to the Nara plains, where she appeared to Miura-no-suke in a dream, prophesying he would kill her and pleading for her life, but the following day Miura-no-suke shot and killed her. Tamamo's body called the Sessho-seki (Killing Stone), and Tamamo's spirit an called Hoji. In an addendum to the tale written in 1653, Hoji was eventually exorcized by a monk named Genno, allowing her to pass on in peace.

From Wikipedia. 'Ono, an inhabitant of Mino (says an ancient Japanese legend of A.D. 545), spent the seasons longing for his ideal of female beauty.

He met her one evening on a vast moor and married her. Simultaneously with the birth of their son, Ono's dog was delivered of a pup which as it grew up became more and more hostile to the lady of the moors. She begged her husband to kill it, but he refused. At last one day the dog attacked her so furiously that she lost courage, resumed vulpine shape, leaped over a fence and fled.

'My father lived here before me, sir, and by now I have many children and grandchildren. They get into a lot of mischief, I'm afraid, and I'm always after them to stop, but they never listen. And now, sir, you're understandably fed up with us. I gather that you're going to kill us all.

But I just want you to know, sir, how sorry I am that this is our last night of life. Won't you pardon us, one more time? If we ever make trouble again, then of course you must act as you think best.

But the young ones, sir — I'm sure they'll understand when I explain to them why you're so upset. We'll do everything we can to protect you from now on, if only you'll forgive us, and we'll be sure to let you know when anything good is going to happen!' . once even wrote a personal letter, directly addressed to the Japanese deity, Inari, regarding Kitsune. A Kitsune appears in by.

The short story 'Ode To Joy' is a conversation between a kitsune and the Fourth Doctor about the changing face of Japan. 's works:. Foxtrot X-Ray and Lady Ako in Chrome Circle. FX has three tails and is pretty weak (though he eventually earns a two-tail upgrade for extreme valor). Ako has nine tails. She's also 'the bearer of some of the most noble blood Under- or Above- Hill.' Her half-kitsune/half-dragon daughter also has nine tails in her kitsune form.

One makes a brief (yet important) appearance in the series in Fortune's Fool, giving the female lead a magic paper crane that comes in handy. Kij Johnson wrote a and it was so popular that she later expanded it into a full novel, Fox Woman, after doing extensive research to make it historically accurate. In Fudoki, another novel by Johnson, a male kistune plays an important role as part of a warband that the main character joins. Despite actually being named Kitsune, no one except the main character seems to realize his true nature. used fox spirits in both Imperial Lady (co-written with Susan Shwartz) and The White Jade Fox. In the former, Silver Snow's maid is a kitsune, while in the latter it's left ambiguous as to whether any of the characters are literally kitsune, but the trope is at least toyed with. 's novella collaboration with,: The Dream Hunters, centers around a kitsune who falls in love with a monk.

In, also by, some background characters are implied to be kitsune; during the battle between the old gods and the American Gods, two Asian women are killed and upon dying they turn into foxes. In there are two notable fox demons, and one of them is even a nine-tailed vixen. They're the uncle and mother of the two demon kings Kinkaku and Ginkaku, making them half-kitsune demons. In 's series, one of the oni's. Winkle, from 's The Sorcerer's House. In 's, one of the figures on the carousel. Celia persuades Poppet to ride it, rather than the gryphon, by telling its story.

In Paul Kidd's series Sura is a kitsune. However she has only one tail, nine-tailed fox-spirits are mythological in that world though at one point she casts a shadow that seems to have multiple tails, and can only assume three specific forms: a fox, a form halfway between fox and human, and a third that looks almost human save for her.

Other animal spirits seen can assume similar forms. In, a nine-tailed fox - called a ninefox or an eyefox note it has eyes on each of its tails - is the symbol of the Shuos faction, comprised of assassins, spies and saboteurs with love of games. The Korean TV dramas, Forbidden Love, and Gumiho: Tales Of A Fox Child feature the Korean variant, Gumiho. The episode 'The Girl Next Door' features a kitsune named Amy Pond. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the portrayal of the creature is. Here, the kitsune is presented as a being of human appearance with the ability to transform its hands into deadly claws. Amy and others like her must feed on human brains in order to survive and can only be killed with a stab to the heart.

About the only thing the show's kitsune have in common with the mythical creature is their foxlike eyes. On, the second half of the third season deals with kitsune mythology. Kira Yukimura is revealed to be a kitsune and possesses a golden spiritual aura in the shape of a fox. In keeping with the idea that the kitsune can create fire or lightning by rubbing its tails together, Kira has the ability to. Her mother has these powers as well.

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There are said to be 13 different types of kitsune, including the nogitsune — a trickster spirit that feeds on chaos, strife and pain. The latter seems to currently be in of Stiles' body. Several kitsune show up among the various fae in, though it's constantly mispronounced as 'kit-soon'. The Fuchsbau Wesen in are very similar to Kitsunes. During the 's 1998 'Year of the Lotus' releases, received an Asian-themed expansion called Hengeyokai which introduced the Kitsune werefoxes. Note There was a similar creature already in this setting, but this book really fleshed them out.

They are described as the youngest of the Changing Breeds, and are the most spiritually inclined. While physically weakest, they are skilled in elemental sorcery as well as paper-themed origami sorcery. As a character goes up in rank, their vulpine forms grow additional tails, generally up to five (the games' level cap), but the legendary Bai Mianxi got up to nine tails. In the, the kitsune are a type of fox-spirit. Makoto Sawatari in turns out to be a fox that Yuuichi cared for when he was young, but he set her free when he had to leave town. Her wish to see him again lets her become human, but despite being able to meet him again years later she has no memories of being a fox, or really anything about her former life at all. Yuuichi Komura from is descended from one and can partially transform into one.

Miyabi in is a kitsune, with the usual shapeshifting powers, ghostly blue fox-fire, and trickster attitude. He appears variously as a handsome young human man, a longer-haired version of his human form with fox ears and tail, and an actual fox with supernatural markings. The Nine-tailed Fox who, according to legend, opposed the Tenma Taro in.

He even inspired a, the Amazing Nine-Tails. Kit from was once a normal fox transformed into human form after mistaking a magical entity named Sylphe for an egg and eating her. As a result, in addition to her new body she possesses strong magical powers via her connection to the Song, though their full extent has not been explored.

Her nickname is a double pun, both short for Kitsune and because a kit is a young fox. In Lari the ninja mistakes Molly the Monster for one of these, and becomes infatuated with her. He's a little out when he realizes that she can't actually change into a regular human. The cast of are primarily, so of course this type is included. Shizuki grows her second tail early on in the series, while Sachi (a kuuko) doesn't show off hers.

Firefox-ko, an unofficial mascot for. And of course Foxkeh, the official one. David Kintobor has the ability to morph into one in 's American Kitsune. From:.

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She on occasion. The actual kitsune is only available in Japanese:. Mystery the dog is strongly implied to be one in the first video of. The second and third videos confirm this, showing a clearer look at his huge, six-tailed form.:. has Oyuki Akamine, who shows up to assist Sun-hyo in defeating malevolent supernatural creatures. has Oyuki's daughter, Kasumi, who helps Grete and her allies fight against the villainous serpents.