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Kitsune-no-Chochin (Osaka)

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Kitsune-no-Chochin is a fox-lantern yokai narrative of Osaka, cited in Kyodo Kenkyu Kamigata (1937). Source: Nichibunken Folklore Database.

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A fox-lantern yokai of Osaka, recorded in Kyodo Kenkyu Kamigata (1937).

Description

Kitsune-no-Chochin (literally "the fox's lantern") is a yokai narrative registered in the Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Strange Phenomena and Yokai Folklore Database. The region field records Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. The source card cites Mitsui Buzaburo, "Naniwa Minzoku Zatsudan," in Kyodo Kenkyu Kamigata (1937). IZANORA preserves the source-card metadata and region as the anchor and adds relations from the cited source and region.

Sources

  • 日文研 怪異・妖怪伝承データベース: 狐の提燈

    Primary source

    三井武三郎

    三井武三郎、「浪華民俗雑談」、『郷土研究上方』、1937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 0550170

    https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/cgi-bin/YoukaiDB3/youkai_card.cgi?ID=0550170
  • 狐火 - Wikipedia 日本語版

    Secondary source

    Wikipedia contributors

    狐火(提灯火)の基本特徴・出現時季・王子稲荷の大晦日狐火行列・狐の嫁入りとの関係・自然科学的説明について整理。

    https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%90%E7%81%AB

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