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Kitsune-nyobo (Gifu)
Kitsune-nyobo is a fox-wife yokai narrative recorded in Gifu, cited in Tabi to Densetsu (1931). Source: Nichibunken Folklore Database.
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A fox-wife narrative of Gifu, recorded in Tabi to Densetsu (1931).
Description
Kitsune-nyobo (fox-wife) is a yokai narrative registered in the Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Strange Phenomena and Yokai Folklore Database. The region field records Gifu Prefecture. The source card cites Yanagita Kunio, "Izumi-Shikibu no Tabi," in Tabi to Densetsu (1931). IZANORA preserves the source-card metadata and region as the anchor and adds relations from the cited source and region, alongside related fox-wife traditions such as Kuzunoha.
Sources
日文研 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース: 狐女房
Primary source柳田国男
柳田国男、「和泉式部の足袋」、『旅と伝説』、1931年、国際日本文化研究センター「怪異・妖怪伝承データベース」ID 1232153
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/youkai_card.cgi?ID=1232153狐女房 - Wikipedia 日本語版
Secondary sourceWikipedia contributors
狐女房の異類婚姻譚としての位置づけ、信太妻・日本霊異記の例、見るなのタブー構造、稲荷信仰との接続について整理。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90%E5%A5%B3%E6%88%BF
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