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tanuki-kimono · 1 year

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Joyful ceramic figurines by artist Sawako Kobayashi, I love how colorful and detailed the painting is! You can see here:

rabbit wearing the kakuregasa (mythical hat of invisibility) to disappear in case of danger

Tanuki wearing the kakuremino (mythical cloak of invisibility) in order to do mischief

white wolf with the uchidenokodzuchi (mythical lucky mallet). Artist says wolves maybe used the mallet to be turned into dogs so they didn’t entirely went extinct T_T

sparrows doing ladder-top acrobatics (hashigonori), a tradition which first appeared among Edo-era firefighters

puppy in a lion dance costume

dragon god tea bowl (with the dragon pearl on the inside)

A frog holding stylised cloves (famously used as medicine since ancient times - that frog might then be in fact a toad, as those are animal linked to cures, immortality and magic)