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Kyubi-no-Kitsune (Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi)

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Kyubi-no-Kitsune (Osaki) is a fox-possession yokai name of Saitama, Ibaraki, and Tochigi, cited in Minzoku to Rekishi (1922). Source: Nichibunken Folklore Database.

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A nine-tailed Osaki fox-possession name of Saitama, Ibaraki, and Tochigi, recorded in Minzoku to Rekishi (1922).

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Kyubi-no-Kitsune (Osaki) is a fox-possession yokai name registered in the Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Strange Phenomena and Yokai Folklore Database. The region field records Saitama, Ibaraki, and Tochigi Prefectures. The source card cites Nakao Seitaro, "Osaki ga Tsuku to iu Koto," in Minzoku to Rekishi (1922). IZANORA preserves the source-card metadata and region as the anchor and adds relations from the cited source and region, alongside related possession-fox traditions including Osaki-gitsune.

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