Danzaburou-danuki
Sign in to saveright|thumb|260px|Danzaburou-danuki (upper left) lends money to human merchants in the painting Danzaburou-danuki of Sado Province (佐渡国同三狸) by [[Kawanabe Kyōsai; from the book 100 Images by Kyōsai.。]]
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right|thumb|260px|Danzaburou-danuki (upper left) lends money to human merchants in the painting Danzaburou-danuki of Sado Province (佐渡国同三狸) by [[Kawanabe Kyōsai; from the book 100 Images by Kyōsai.。]]
is a bake-danuki passed down in stories on Sado Island, particularly in Aikawa and Niigata. In Sado, tanuki were called "mujina (狢)", thus he was also referred to as Danzaburou-mujina (団三郎狢). In the Ukiyo-e, its name was written as 同三狸." Together with the Shibaemon-tanuki of Awaji Island, and the Yashima no Hage-tanuki of Kagawa Prefecture, they form the "three famous tanuki" of Japan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danzaburou-danuki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.