Kitsune
c. 700 CE – 2026 CEattested
Japan
- Japanese
Foxes that gain a tail each century, can take human form, and serve the rice deity Inari, sometimes as messengers, sometimes purely to make trouble.
Known for
- a tail per century
- shape-shifting
- messengers of Inari
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.