Japanese Fox Spirit Drawing
This is almost the total opposite of the swan spirit animal.
Japanese fox spirit drawing. Problem solving aptitude and keen mental faculties sum up fox s meaning and symbolism nicely. Kitsune 狐 キツネ ipa. Apr 26 2019 explore ellen bounds s board foxes drawings and paintings of fox followed by 5861 people on pinterest.
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Ki tsɯꜜne in the literal sense is the japanese word for fox foxes are a common subject of japanese folklore. A handsome kitsune a 9 tailed fox. Sometimes tricky spirits sometimes shrine guards.
Kitsune first debuted in japanese literature in the eighth century and their legend has never faded since. The fox spirit animal teaches you to be resourceful and flexible if you want to emerge victorious. Japanese people believed in their magical foxes well into the eighteenth century.
They can be found as statues around ancient shrines for inari on calligraphy scrolls by japan s finest artists and of course in thousands of folktales. According to yōkai folklore all foxes have the ability to. The fox spirit in daji s body was later driven out by jiang ziya 姜子牙 the first prime minister of the zhou dynasty and her spirit condemned by nüwa herself for excessive cruelty.
The fox spirit is a diversified creature that folktales show as being able to slip into many different roles as the circumstances dictate. Typically fox spirits were seen as dangerous but some of the stories in the qing dynasty book liaozhai zhiyi by pu songling are love stories between a fox appearing as a beautiful girl and a young human male.
