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飯綱
いづな
1. [n]
▶ izuna
▶ pipe fox
▶ [expl] fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2257730 管狐 1. kuda-gitsune; pipe fox; fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses
  ⇐ see: 2850896 飯綱使い【いづなつかい】 1. keeper of an izuna (fox-like spirit)
2. [n] [abbr]
▶ keeper of an izuna
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2850896 飯綱使い 1. keeper of an izuna (fox-like spirit)



History:
6. A 2021-10-16 23:55:14  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2850896">飯綱使い</xref>
5. A 2021-10-14 10:40:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2021-10-11 14:32:53  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daij, koj
  Comments:
I'll create a 飯綱使い entry if this is approved.
  Diff:
@@ -12,2 +12,9 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2257730">管狐・くだぎつね・1</xref>
-<gloss>mythological pipe fox</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2257730">管狐・1</xref>
+<gloss>izuna</gloss>
+<gloss>pipe fox</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">fox-like spirit kept inside a bamboo tube and used by its master to perform divinations and curses</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
+<gloss>keeper of an izuna</gloss>
3. A* 2021-10-03 06:39:07  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I suggest aligning this with 管狐. Both could have their glosses polished up a bit.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>a type of fox spirit</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="2257730">管狐・くだぎつね・1</xref>
+<gloss>mythological pipe fox</gloss>
2. A* 2021-10-01 01:18:36  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
koj says it's the same as kuda-gitsune... which has an entry in English Wikipedia.
"The kuda-gitsune or kuda-kitsune (管狐, クダ狐), also pronounced kanko, is a type of spirit possession in legends around 
various parts of Japan. It may be known otherwise as osaki especially in the Kantō region, and also considered 
equivalent to the izuna.

It was believed to assume the guise of a small mammal and able to fit inside a pipe or bamboo tube, but normally only 
its keeper or user (kitsune-tsukai) was able to see it. The user, through the power of the kuda, was believed capable of 
divulging a person's past or fortelling his future; this soothsayer was also capable of performing curses, bringing 
calamity upon targets. In regions where the superstition was held, a prospering household could be accused of achieving 
its prosperity because it was a house possed by the spirit (kuda-tsuki). The fox (and its analogues by other names) was 
said to multiply in number each time a marriage took place, following the bride to her place of marriage, thus 
disseminating into more households."
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