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The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore

Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities

by Michael Bathgate

A scholarly study of the fox in Japanese religion and folklore. Bathgate analyses fox tales, Inari worship and possession beliefs as reflections on transformation, exchange and the boundaries of the human world.

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