{"id":694,"date":"2010-08-25T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=694"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:06:09","slug":"the-nine-tailed-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/the-nine-tailed-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nine Tailed Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ky\u016bbi no kitsune (<strong>\u4e5d\u5c3e<\/strong><strong>\u306e<\/strong><strong>\u72d0<\/strong>) is a legendary nine tailed fox prevalent in Japanese folktales and plays. Stories about the nine tailed fox go way back in Japan\u2019s oral telling history. Interestingly, it\u2019s still used in modern times. If you\u2019ve watched the anime Naruto (<strong>\u30ca\u30eb\u30c8\u30fc<\/strong>), the ky\u016bbi no y\u014dko (<strong>\u4e5d\u5c3e<\/strong><strong>\u306e<\/strong><strong>\u5996\u72d0<\/strong>) or nine tailed demon fox plays an important role in the story. However, in the anime, the nine tailed fox doesn\u2019t take on the typical role that it has in traditional Japanese stories of the nine tailed fox.<\/p>\n<p>In Japanese folklore, the nine tailed fox takes on the appearance of a beautiful woman. Tamamo no mae (<strong>\u85fb<\/strong><strong>\u306e<\/strong><strong>\u524d<\/strong>), which in English means, \u201cThe Beautiful Fox Witch\u201d is a story about the nine tailed fox\u2019s disguise as a woman. The emperor happens to fall in love with the woman, but the more he falls in love, the sicker he becomes. There\u2019s a term in Japanese called kitsunegao (<strong>\u30ad\u30c4\u30cd\u9854<\/strong>), which means \u201cfox-faced\u201d. Generally speaking, the Japanese view women with \u201cfox faced\u201d features as attractive. These \u201cfox faced\u201d features refer to women who have a small, oval face and prominent cheekbones; which are supposedly features like those of a fox.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s where the Tamamo no mae story originated from, but like Tamamo no mae, the transformation of the nine tailed fox as a woman is a metaphor for falling and the pain that occurs to the lover (usually in reference to men) when involved in such a love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"238\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/08\/Tamamo-no-mae-woodblock-238x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/08\/Tamamo-no-mae-woodblock-238x350.jpg 238w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/08\/Tamamo-no-mae-woodblock.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><p>The ky\u016bbi no kitsune (\u4e5d\u5c3e\u306e\u72d0) is a legendary nine tailed fox prevalent in Japanese folktales and plays. Stories about the nine tailed fox go way back in Japan\u2019s oral telling history. Interestingly, it\u2019s still used in modern times. If you\u2019ve watched the anime Naruto (\u30ca\u30eb\u30c8\u30fc), the ky\u016bbi no y\u014dko (\u4e5d\u5c3e\u306e\u5996\u72d0) or nine tailed demon fox&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/the-nine-tailed-fox\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10902],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-nine-tailed-fox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}