Yokai Explained: Japanese Raccoon Dog with Gigantic Balls, Really (Tanuki)

[@Linfamy]

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[@fuzzythoughts8020]

I lost the moment instagram got brought into things, at least I have tanuki balls to keep me entertained

[@Tia-Marie]

The ball puns are plentiful. This brought much joy.

[@Linfamy]

@@fuzzythoughts8020 haha sorry. But have fun with the balls

[@alexandriacollins7119]

I suppose that future keychain designs will include the 7/8 Gods of Good Fortune?

[@YearOfMe]

Hey Linfamy I Think The Three Missing Keychains are Emperor Sutoku ,Tamamo no Mae,Shuten Doji The Three Most Evil Yokai.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"Can you love an animals with balls bigger than itself?" Is water H2O?

[@film57r7]

No

[@Emmett_Br0wn]

No

[@RamenBowl2.0]

actually its dihydrogen monoxide

[@brotherzlox5115]

No

[@user-ve8po6jk1x]

@@wademclean3991 exactly

[@smilingthroughitall1115]

Man, this was nuts. Really took some balls to post this. Seriously, you rock. I do not regret these puns.

[@Linfamy]

😅👍

[@shauryarawat2413]

Lmfao

[@Lucky-Nick123]

Are you a tanuki in disguise

[@smilingthroughitall1115]

@@Lucky-Nick123 What makes you say that?

[@Lucky-Nick123]

@@smilingthroughitall1115 from the ball jokes you said , i was kidding around

[@allenwalkeranime7968]

The Japanese have some really "interesting" folk tales

[@jamesmiller2521]

Usually about servants taking revenge on their masters' enemies

[@gabiusz1375]

And people say today's anime is weird.

[@Strangeness_coven]

Looking at you, butt-eye yokai.

[@Linfamy]

Why you looking??

[@Strangeness_coven]

It's an expression pointing something out.

[@theconqueringram5295]

I have never laughed at works of art so much in my entire life...

[@Linfamy]

Scrotum man 😅

[@batbilegochirpurev5029]

@@Linfamy target practice

[@kdot4068]

This made me laugh way harder than it should. I thought I was cultured and mature, but the Tanuki has proven me otherwise.

[@Linfamy]

Join us immature heathens.

[@Linfamy]

6:21 turtles, in a nutshell

[@coconuts5500]

Soft shell

[@emmaf7021]

That tanuki story sounds like a dark version of a Chinese board book I have. Continue if you want to read a slightly more wholesome fox version. So there once was a fox who liked to steal radishes from a farmer. So the farmer set a trap and waited. Once the fox, being a dumb greedy fox, reached his grubby hand into the trap and was caught. The farmer tied him up, and put him in his house above a pot of boiling water (doesn’t specify if he was going to kill him). The farmer’s wife came and was making rice balls and rice porridge. The fox begged her to release him. She refused. He cried and begged, so she finally complied. He took the wooden mallet she was using to knead the dough and beat her down and escaped. The farmer came home with his rabbit friend (sound familiar?) who had brought him some mushrooms. They found the wife on the floor, dazed but ok, next to the spilled rice dough. Furious, the rabbit went outside the fox burrow and started cooking some delicious rice balls over a fire, which lured the fox out. The rabbit told the fox that if he carried some straw for her she would give him some food. Behind him, she beat some rocks together, sparking and lighting the straw on fire. The fox slowly began to feel hotter, then started jumping about screaming. Bunny gave him some balm, which was really painful. So the rabbit took him fishing. The fox decided that he would take the bigger clay boat, but it broke apart in the middle of the sea. The rabbit lectured him and beat him on the head for good measure with her oar, but then pulled him up once he promised that he changed. She took him back to the farmer, where they all had rice balls and the fox never stole radishes again. The End.

[@Linfamy]

Wow, the two stories must be related!

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

What's suspicious is that foxes don't eat radishes, but a rabbit might. Hmmm....

[@Elliandr]

@@lyndsaybrown8471 Sounds like the Rabbits retold the story to make the Kitsuni look bad. 🤔 If you switch the roles of the Rabbit and Fox and end the story with, "And then the Rabbit went onto tell everyone this story, except by putting the blame on the Fox." it would would all make sense.

[@newperve]

"I'll put a link to an actual person singing it." Implying that when he sung it an actual person wasn't singing. Linfamy = Tanuki confirmed.

[@Linfamy]

>.>

[@historysquad]

"I put a link in the description below for an actual person singing it" So you are saying you're not an actual person?

[@Linfamy]

I'm a peanut

[@youcantbeatk7006]

@@Linfamy I thought you were a turd.

[@captainstag8189]

@@Linfamy i thought you were a Cuban cigar

[@cholorossm.ibutnandi8652]

@@Linfamy I thought you were a JoJo fan.

[@Linfamy]

Y'all funny

[@jasonblalock4429]

Now THIS is prime KZbin. Authentic history, which makes you giggle like a schoolkid.

[@prestonjones1653]

6:20 "Target practice." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@brendaluv2017]

😂🤣

[@Im-fq1mn]

sooo painful😭😭😭😭😭🏹🏹🏹

[@melanitesong]

yowch

[@lemonade4520]

well it's just the sack, the skin, so...... not that much of a deal i guess since their sacks are also very durable in the first place

[@bigmanimation]

Pain

[@danieljgore1]

Preliminary thought: When I saw the blurred designs I thought at first they were special edition scrotumed charms that @linfamy had to blur or else be demonetized.

[@Linfamy]

Plot twist: they are

[@Linfamy]

@Kota Hyatt 😁👍

[@Linfamy]

@Kota Hyatt hi a fan, I'm linfamy

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I thought they were Heian pollowbook prints.

[@duchi882]

When you realize The Japanese Raccoon Dog can fit well in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender wherein the animals are combined Animals like Aardvark Sloth, Armadillo Lion, Boar-Q-Pine, Buzzard Wasp, Koala Sheep, and etc.

[@robertdicke7249]

The raccoon dogs are avid blood benders.

[@dreamingpichu2334]

And the platypus bear you can't forget to name that gem of a creature

[@KHowardishereandthefunsbegun]

Turtle ducks: 👁👄👁

[@annymus4502]

@@KHowardishereandthefunsbegun Those are the best

[@GoldenStreak9k]

(You might be thinking of the tigerdillo from tales of ba sing se, so its a armadillo tiger)

[@latoyathunderstar9585]

Aww. That really was adorable singing for us. I also like the Tanuki. 🌸

[@Linfamy]

The tanuki's pretty fun. Until he smacks you in the face with his junk.

[@latoyathunderstar9585]

Linfamy, yes that would’ve happened. It would be pretty hard to dodge considering it has no limit to capture you in its binds.

[@Linfamy]

@@latoyathunderstar9585 the unstoppable scrotum. Unscrotable?

[@kikyamart8749]

Also, Tom Nook from Animal Crossing is a Tanuki!! He's the shop keeper!

[@Linfamy]

Cool! :D

[@mags9024]

Yeah, and after you pay your house off, that’s when he reveals you were living in his nutsack the entire time.

[@spleens4200]

I’m scared to find out what people have done with him after they learned this fact about him

[@WhatDillionYT]

@@spleens4200 oh no...

[@mollysministuff]

@@spleens4200 The whole roof of his shop is just his balls

[@melanitesong]

His voice is actually quite a nice voice, even when singing.

[@tossingturnips]

"It's completely nuts." That was a very unassuming joke and I love it.

[@Pascll]

6:00 woah, that's actually really cool and funny. who would have thought ancient japanese people made parodies!

[@VictoriaMeira7]

What is it a parody of?

[@Pascll]

​@@VictoriaMeira7 it's been a while since I last heard it so I might get some details wrong, but it's the story about a giant fish that was causing earthquakes, so a hero (or maybe a god, I don't remember) defeated it by pinning it down with a rock in the same way the tanuki pinned it down. he then trapped him in a circle of rocks.

[@mohdghazali3473]

@@VictoriaMeira7 Remember, the lazy and fat monk who eat on people donation was called tanuki.

[@GaijinGoombah]

0:00 YES! ONLY COWARDS CAN'T!

[@marcusmilliance4240]

Never expected GimGam to be in the comments!

[@basilisgkotsis4042]

Tom Nook: Mr Gaining Goombah the KZbin bill is 5000bells and the DMM games and Kantai Collection s bill is 10000bells thanks

[@Obzornor]

@@basilisgkotsis4042 ITS simple just do *T A X I N V A S I O N*

[@basilisgkotsis4042]

@@Obzornor no this is Tax Net

[@jasonsteele6920]

I thought I had already seen the craziest tanuki woodblock paintings out there (like the fishing net one), but you, sir, have educated me today. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. Thank you for this video!

[@Linfamy]

Scrotum man got me 😂

[@ebity99]

supplement: It is as mentioned in the video about the tanuki folklore. Then why did thetanuki figure spread all over Japan? Some tanuki figure was made by a potter who lived in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. One day, Emperor Hirohito visited Shigaraki Town. He was impressed by the tanuki figure and wrote haiku. The news spreaded all over Japan, and tanuki figure in Shigaraki sold explosively. The act of putting a tanuki figure in front of a store was born very recently.

[@Linfamy]

Interesting, thank you! I'd want to be emperor just to spread weird stories.

[@Linfamy]

3:37 Why do I do this to myself?

[@sirmiles1820]

sounds almost like the same as doreimon song

[@k.umquat8604]

Well.. You have a good voice, but it's not like you should sing a song about animal genitalia in the middle of the street. You didn't do that though.

[@Linfamy]

@@k.umquat8604 next video: singing songs about animals genatalia in the streets

[@angelusnielson7135]

"Scientology meeting' I lost it.

[@alana.dyer.author]

Linfamy: "Today on Yokai for slackers at work" Me: *at work eating a salad* I'm not slacking I'm on dinner break

[@rkswl91]

I lost it at the million woodlog paintings descriptions and the thematic background music 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@lektik2941]

The illustrations are hilarious! I love the little tanuki with his face covered by the "Umbrella".

[@pitioti]

6:19: "Konnichiwa everyone! We are Tanukis, and this... IS JACKASS!!"

[@greathoundii6142]

*Tanuki sinks into the sea* Bunny: Ain't I a stinker? *Looney Toons ending theme*

[@irfanismailyowo8273]

Boycott warner bros

[@Sandra.Molchanova]

This has been the longest list of synonyms for balls I've ever heard 🤣

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@ocarinajourney5374]

I love the Tanuki 😁 Pom-Poko was the first thing I thought of seeing the thumbnail/title :)

[@Linfamy]

An educated person, you are ;)

[@revinaque1342]

I love how much effort you put into coming up with all the possible euphemisms for ballsack 😂

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@thomaskoutsoukis8976]

The amount of testicle related humor and synonyms for them in this video is incredible!

[@notsoheroiclink3020]

Tom Nook is quaking, people are gonna find out what those bell bags really are. 😱

[@Chadmiral]

Lol

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

This Yokai story of the Tanuki is really nuts! I love it!

[@SewardWriter]

The ad I got on this video was the toilet paper bears saying, "THAT'S HUGE!" Yes, you may laugh, too.

[@Linfamy]

😂

[@pandorasangel2747]

As soon as you said you were going to show me old tanuki art I got an ad spamming air horns as if telling me to run away xD

[@Linfamy]

😂😂

[@Tanookicatoon]

You were very close with the gold thing! Metal workers would use tanuki scrotums to cushion gold when they hammered it into shape. Tanuki leather was placed on a hard surface, and the gold would be hammered on top of that, because it created a smooth surface the metal material could be spread on. Because gold is much softer than most metals, it needed the gentler surface to be handled. And, of course, after being used for a really long time, you would have this stretched out tanuki scrotum left over.

[@Stingarella]

i want a racoon dog now lol

[@Linfamy]

Who doesnt?

[@sse-678]

People who got PTSD from seeing the tanuki’s genitals.

[@Linfamy]

@@sse-678 you mean your testicles don't do that?

[@sebastianalcones8018]

Lemme guess u wanna check if it has rlly a big pp?

[@aadarshakarki2976]

😂

[@Linfamy]

Which tanuki woodblock painting do you like the most?

[@L0rdOfThePies]

Yes

[@Linfamy]

@@L0rdOfThePies 😂

[@Calvini2013]

"Flexing" & scrotum man 😂😂

[@Linfamy]

@@Calvini2013 scrotum man is popular

[@blindpilot3849]

The 'Scrum' (I need to show this to the scrum master at work!), the 'Scroat', the mochi, the 'whacking the whale' one and the 'Softshell turtles' had me in stitches and that segment alone was good for at least 8 rewinds, so it takes me way more than 10 minutes to watch this video. 😆

[@ninjasmoocher72]

the old illustrations have me in tears

[@adityam9001]

"totally nuts"

[@LordhelpMe0_0]

I saw the tanuki post recently and finally found the vid!

[@Linfamy]

😁

[@両角-k4q]

Bakedanuki" is a youkai of the raccoon dogs transmitted to Japan, and it is said that it is said that humanbeings are hanging around and turning them into human figures. There are too many such folktales to count Among the ghosts that appear in folktales in various parts of Japan, three famous foxes are said to be three famous raccoon dogs of youkai in Japan ・Sado Danzaburo (Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture) ・Awaji Shibaemon (Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture) ・Yashima Taizaburo (Yashima, Kagawa)

[@lucassmith3353]

"The reason why their pouches existed is because artists had fun with it" Hol up

[@FByrde]

The sheer number of euphemisms in this video is goddamn LEGENDARY. Respect!

[@YataTheFifteenth]

I was about to request this, guess it wasn't needed. Also, Mamizou Futatsuiwa

[@Linfamy]

I read your mind.

[@atsukorichards1675]

A fun video!! With many wonderful artworks and a superb presentation of the very popular kid's song in Japan! (The scientology meeting? Really?) And the story, かちかち山. Those たぬき related things are so familiar to us that we do not realize how they are strange and weird. (I grew up in Shiga, not far from Shigaraki (信楽) where all those lovable Tanuki clay figures are made. And I am proud of it.)

[@Bot-tm7hs]

Your singing voice is actually kinda nice. That song about raccoon dog balls was soothing

[@Nishimiya_Bojji]

This video definitelly must have broke a record guiness about nut puns! Not complaining tho it was pure fun. TaNUTkis are awesome!

[@ocean_booi]

1:43 the text in the downleft corner, I *FELT* that

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@zoeynot1013]

Holy shit I've learned alot watching your stuff alot of things in anime or manga that reference this stuff made no sense to me but know the history and context makes it easier. Thanks I appreciate your work

[@Linfamy]

Giving context to anime, a good channel motto XD

[@wrongsalvation8904]

I am never disappointed by one of your videos.

[@Linfamy]

Yes! 💗

[@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod]

Me: *[tries to be open-minded and scholarly and not consider Japanese culture to be incredibly weird sometimes]* Japan: *[invents a magical raccoon/bear/dog thing with huge testicles that can be molded into nearly any shape]* Me: *O_O* ( EDIT: This comment got a heart from Linfamy, Senpai noticed me! *UwU* )

[@Linfamy]

Japanese scholars probably also consider it weird :p

[@dragoncatoverload]

Pom poko is literally how I know the tanuki song ^^; one of my favorite ghibli movies

[@clairemariep.garciano4613]

Me when i saw this video: i don't need sleep i need folklore

[@deepfriedbaby3587]

but its only 10 minutes

[@Linfamy]

It's 1 hour if you watch it again 5 times

[@clairemariep.garciano4613]

The time here in my country is nighttime/early in the morning

[@real_magixrex1252]

@@Linfamy 6times

[@aliza_h]

NO SLEEP TIL FOLKLORE

[@DarwinoArturo]

I´ve suscribed just now. I just love your channel, mixes pokemon with culture, simply the best, greetings from Mexico!!

[@Linfamy]

Cheers from USA!

[@censusgary]

I kept waiting for Linfamy to mention the movie “Pom Poko,” but he waited until the very end. “Pom Poko” is how I know about Japanese raccoon-dogs.

[@Ruchaaaaaa]

Thank you so much @Linfamy for doing a video on my recommendation 💗💗

[@Linfamy]

:D

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

only 2 tanukis i know of, futatsuiwa mamizou and a random one (from a manga) that went *「YELLOW TEMPERANCE」* on kirisame marisa

[@lilbill7385]

I chocked on my drink at the song

[@Cyfix15]

I learned the word Kintama, and I will use it

[@Linfamy]

That's all I ever wanted

[@Badassery666]

Kintama O daiji ni ne! “Take care of your balls”

[@rkxyk]

Gosh! The artists are so creative hahahahaha

[@otro_dany_mas]

love this stories, please do more video about yokais

[@benketengu]

Thank you very much your video showed up on my feed just at the right time my younger sister had asked you a question about a picture of a ton of key I had sent her standing next to a tea Rex on top of a building in sakai Japan. And your song also brought back memories of when I was a college student miss behaving at a Japanese restaurant in Raleigh North Carolina. At the time I hadn’t realized that this song was not a good drinking song, I also had not realize that the waitress was a friend of a girl who stood me up for a date a few days later. The early 80s thanks for the memory and answering my sisters question

[@Linfamy]

Glad it was helpful ;)

[@captaintorchman1046]

6:18 okay the rest is acceptable. But making mochi using that sack just... eeewwww!

[@Len..K]

So many ball uses, fascinating

[@kayyylllaaa]

tom nook u got some explaining to do my guy

[@Raybets]

"How come you can talk?" 7:48 LOL. Nice joke there.

[@mcstabbins4501]

They've got 2 ways to look human, shape shifting and ball man

[@marsheelovessans7925]

Linfamy, i just woke up in a middle of the night its 3:07 a.m and saw ur vids i clicked as fast i can

[@Linfamy]

Sorry it was about balls, hope you didn't dream about balls. And go to sleep! :P

[@marsheelovessans7925]

Nah, it was the baby

[@dragonga1223]

I sometimes wish our folk tales were as funny as these

[@gwang3103]

I think the Celts had some very corny tales, but the Church banned them (as usual).

[@alphabo2776]

I love this channel

[@shrill8239]

5:04😮😮Those balls were sure useful

[@retroarcadde2128]

FLUFFY LITTLE GOOD BOYS

[@Linfamy]

mmhmm

[@WildBillCox13]

"Even I can't do that." Word. And it makes sense, that association with money. "If my coin purse is that big, I must be a very rich man." Sympathetic magic. I cite Randy Marsh and the microwave oven. Anyone would be sympathetic if they tripped over their junk while running. Or bouncing along, pretty as you please.

[@Peppermon22]

I’ve only seen pompoko once. The balls have been burned into my brain. I need to re watch that movie.

[@Linfamy]

Yesss great movie

[@turinmormegil7715]

The puns make this video 100% even funnier. Had a blast

[@franztheprussian4166]

"How come you can talk?" The farmer asking the real questions here

[@thenoblepoptart]

The scrotal drum (scrum) got me

[@AwesomeRara]

HOW MANY BALL JOKES CAN WE FIT INTO 10:04? LINFAMY: HOLD MY SAKE

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@chandramohanm4003]

Don't worry your voice is great

[@q-miiproductions878]

What about the Mujina? They often get confused with Tanuki in Japan. Magic badgers need more love. And while you’re at it, don’t forget the itachi, ten, and kawauso! Weasels, martens and otters don’t get enough media coverage, either.

[@lexezlao]

don't worry that's what furries are for

[@onibashu]

can you do a video on the yuki onna yokai? very curious to learn about it

[@XenoflareBahamut]

Mamizou going back to the outside world to watch this video.

[@FreakyFeline88]

'They are totally nuts' - I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

[@Lulu888666]

Me: Linfamy: Tanuki represent wealth, are cheap, really rotund due to a love of sake, food, partying and they're lucky... also they have huge balls. Me, an intellectual: You mean Tanuki=Americans? XD

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

and americans= big balls/bust/ass (depending on gender)

[@zionleach3001]

The Japanese sure are.... Creative. So many yokia are so bonkers.

[@AyubuKK]

I think it’s really cool how Japanese mythical shapeshifters can’t shape-shift effortlessly, thus some yokai can be easily spotted even when they attempt a disguise.

[@kevinaudrey4731]

for more tanuki action, please refer to 'medicinal friend' episode of south park

[@Alias_Anybody]

As soon as I won one of these you are making new ones. Huh. 😁 I'm not on Insta but, just for the lolz, one of the three is Amaterasu throwing her glowing sun daggers I guess?

[@Linfamy]

;)

[@1973Washu]

That story was completely nuts

[@patience2623]

4:09 i cannot unsee :,>

[@Linfamy]

😬

[@strawbunnyfreckles5266]

man Animal crossing comes full circle. I mean I knew a little about the tanuki but I didn't know this much about them, the whole leaf and money thing makes the furniture items make sense

[@men_del12]

3:13 "It has a tail." *GASP* YOU ARE TANUKIII!

[@Linfamy]

Shhh

[@MehLewH]

Watched Pom Poko a little while ago and this makes me think of that it again.

[@tails_the_god]

6:24 SCROTUM MANNNNNNNNNNNNN lol thats got to be my favorite one XD

[@Linfamy]

It's pretty creative 😂

[@tails_the_god]

@@Linfamy now we need to add these scrotum powers to tanooki mario

[@rosswebster7877]

The most well endowed of all the yokai! These woodblock prints are the best!😂

[@jasonarmstrong5750]

Japanese raccoon dog sounds like an insult the City Wok guy would come up with

[@Linfamy]

That does sound like an insult XD

[@joanhoffman3702]

That was hilarious! 😂 I never knew there were so many euphemisms for scrotum. 😁 By the way, tanukis figure quite a lot in Tom Robbins' novel Villa Incognito.