More Fun with Raccoon Dogs

 (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure, あらためて狸の戯)

Publisher:  Kazusa-ya Iwazô

1844-1846

 

This series of comic prints alludes to the supposed ability of raccoon dogs to voluntarily enlarge their scrotums.  It is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).  The images are each about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters), a size known as chûban.  Two images were printed on a sheet of paper about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

 

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), jljh

 

Title: The making of mochi (Mochi tsuki)

 

Title: Visiting Konpira, the guardian deity of seafaring (Konpira mairi)

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), asdas

 

Title: Dashi (a Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)

 

Title: Boys Festival (Tango no sekku)

Description: Fanning the air to get carp streamers aloft

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), hjkk

 

Title: Benkei and the Bell (Tsurigane Benkei)

 

Title: Fukurokuju (the tall headed god of happiness, wealth and long life)

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), River Crossing (Kawa watari) & Rokurokkubi (a long-necked monster)

 

Title: River Crossing (Kawa watari)

 

Title: Rokurokkubi (a long-necked monster)

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Title: Archery range (Yaba)

 

NOTE: The word yaba (矢場) may mean either archery range or brothel

 

Title: Turtles (Kame)

 

 

Title:

Description: A young sumô wrestler comprised of a takuni scrotum

 

Title:

Description: Seven tanuki use ropes to flatten a giant scrotum, perhaps for a sumô tournament

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), Entertainers & Large headed Dwarf

 

Title: Entertainer

 

 

Title: Dwarf with large

head

Kuniyoshi - More fun with Raccoon Dogs (Aratamete tanuki no tawamure), CAGUUIHP

 

Title:

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The raccoon dog is also known as Nyctereutes procyonoides, magnut and tanuki (タヌキ, , , or たぬき).  It is the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes.

 

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