‘Coon balls
Yikes! I stumble across so many fun Japanese things on the Internet such as these prints of ‘Coon balls. The tanuki— racoon-dog of Japan is considered in legends as a mischievous, jolly master of disguise and shape-shifting. In folk tales, the tanuki voluntarily enlarge their scrotums such as this traditional print. View full-size on Paper-Cuts
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Patrick, my neighbor up the hill was so inspired by these prints and the legend that he created and posted on his own tanuki interpretation on his PaperCuts artblog of his cut-paper creation, Kintama Parachute.
Click to view the full-size photo of Kintama Parachute on PaperCuts.
Note: Kintama means
balls in Japanese.
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