Yokai Explained: Japanese Raccoon Dog with Gigantic Balls, Really (Tanuki)
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I lost the moment instagram got brought into things, at least I have tanuki balls to keep me entertained
The ball puns are plentiful. This brought much joy.
@@fuzzythoughts8020 haha sorry. But have fun with the balls
I suppose that future keychain designs will include the 7/8 Gods of Good Fortune?
Hey Linfamy I Think The Three Missing Keychains are Emperor Sutoku ,Tamamo no Mae,Shuten Doji The Three Most Evil Yokai.
The Japanese have some really "interesting" folk tales
Usually about servants taking revenge on their masters' enemies
And people say today's anime is weird.
Looking at you, butt-eye yokai.
Why you looking??
It's an expression pointing something out.
"Can you love an animals with balls bigger than itself?"
Is water H2O?
No
No
actually its dihydrogen monoxide
No
@@wademclean3991 exactly
Man, this was nuts. Really took some balls to post this. Seriously, you rock. I do not regret these puns.
😅👍
Lmfao
Are you a tanuki in disguise
@@Lucky-Nick123 What makes you say that?
@@smilingthroughitall1115 from the ball jokes you said , i was kidding around
I have never laughed at works of art so much in my entire life...
Scrotum man 😅
@@Linfamy target practice
6:20
"Target practice."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
😂🤣
sooo painful😭😭😭😭😭🏹🏹🏹
yowch
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
Pain
6:21 turtles, in a nutshell
Soft shell
"I put a link in the description below for an actual person singing it"
So you are saying you're not an actual person?
I'm a peanut
@@Linfamy I thought you were a turd.
@@Linfamy i thought you were a Cuban cigar
@@Linfamy I thought you were a JoJo fan.
Y'all funny
"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.
>.>
This made me laugh way harder than it should. I thought I was cultured and mature, but the Tanuki has proven me otherwise.
Join us immature heathens.
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.
Wow, the two stories must be related!
What's suspicious is that foxes don't eat radishes, but a rabbit might. Hmmm....
@@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.
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.
The raccoon dogs are avid blood benders.
And the platypus bear you can't forget to name that gem of a creature
Turtle ducks: 👁👄👁
@@KHowardishereandthefunsbegun
Those are the best
(You might be thinking of the tigerdillo from tales of ba sing se, so its a armadillo tiger)
Now THIS is prime TH-cam. Authentic history, which makes you giggle like a schoolkid.
0:00 YES! ONLY COWARDS CAN'T!
Never expected GimGam to be in the comments!
Tom Nook: Mr Gaining Goombah the TH-cam bill is 5000bells and the DMM games and Kantai Collection s bill is 10000bells thanks
@@basilisgkotsis4042 ITS simple just do
*T A X I N V A S I O N*
@@Obzornor no this is Tax Net
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.
Plot twist: they are
@Kota Hyatt 😁👍
@Kota Hyatt hi a fan, I'm linfamy
I thought they were Heian pollowbook prints.
"Scientology meeting' I lost it.
Also, Tom Nook from Animal Crossing is a Tanuki!! He's the shop keeper!
Cool! :D
Yeah, and after you pay your house off, that’s when he reveals you were living in his nutsack the entire time.
I’m scared to find out what people have done with him after they learned this fact about him
@@spleens4200 oh no...
@@spleens4200 The whole roof of his shop is just his balls
6:19: "Konnichiwa everyone! We are Tanukis, and this... IS JACKASS!!"
Linfamy: "Today on Yokai for slackers at work"
Me: *at work eating a salad* I'm not slacking I'm on dinner break
"It's completely nuts."
That was a very unassuming joke and I love it.
*Tanuki sinks into the sea*
Bunny: Ain't I a stinker?
*Looney Toons ending theme*
Boycott warner bros
i want a racoon dog now lol
Who doesnt?
People who got PTSD from seeing the tanuki’s genitals.
@@sse-678 you mean your testicles don't do that?
Lemme guess u wanna check if it has rlly a big pp?
😂
His voice is actually quite a nice voice, even when singing.
6:00 woah, that's actually really cool and funny. who would have thought ancient japanese people made parodies!
What is it a parody of?
@@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.
@@VictoriaMeira7 Remember, the lazy and fat monk who eat on people donation was called tanuki.
Tom Nook is quaking, people are gonna find out what those bell bags really are. 😱
Lol
Aww. That really was adorable singing for us. I also like the Tanuki. 🌸
The tanuki's pretty fun. Until he smacks you in the face with his junk.
Linfamy, yes that would’ve happened. It would be pretty hard to dodge considering it has no limit to capture you in its binds.
@@latoyathunderstar9585 the unstoppable scrotum. Unscrotable?
This has been the longest list of synonyms for balls I've ever heard 🤣
😅
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.
Interesting, thank you! I'd want to be emperor just to spread weird stories.
"The reason why their pouches existed is because artists had fun with it"
Hol up
3:37 Why do I do this to myself?
sounds almost like the same as doreimon song
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.
@@k.umquat8604 next video: singing songs about animals genatalia in the streets
"totally nuts"
The ad I got on this video was the toilet paper bears saying, "THAT'S HUGE!"
Yes, you may laugh, too.
😂
I lost it at the million woodlog paintings descriptions and the thematic background music 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
😅
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!
Scrotum man got me 😂
Me when i saw this video: i don't need sleep i need folklore
but its only 10 minutes
It's 1 hour if you watch it again 5 times
The time here in my country is nighttime/early in the morning
@@Linfamy 6times
NO
SLEEP
TIL FOLKLORE
I love how much effort you put into coming up with all the possible euphemisms for ballsack 😂
😅
The amount of testicle related humor and synonyms for them in this video is incredible!
I love the Tanuki 😁 Pom-Poko was the first thing I thought of seeing the thumbnail/title :)
An educated person, you are ;)
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* )
Japanese scholars probably also consider it weird :p
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
😂😂
FLUFFY LITTLE GOOD BOYS
mmhmm
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)
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.
I learned the word Kintama, and I will use it
That's all I ever wanted
Kintama O daiji ni ne! “Take care of your balls”
I sometimes wish our folk tales were as funny as these
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.
The illustrations are hilarious! I love the little tanuki with his face covered by the "Umbrella".
I was about to request this, guess it wasn't needed.
Also, Mamizou Futatsuiwa
I read your mind.
HOW MANY BALL JOKES CAN WE FIT INTO 10:04?
LINFAMY: HOLD MY SAKE
😅
the old illustrations have me in tears
They've got 2 ways to look human, shape shifting and ball man
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.
"How come you can talk?"
7:48
LOL. Nice joke there.
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
Giving context to anime, a good channel motto XD
I’ve only seen pompoko once. The balls have been burned into my brain. I need to re watch that movie.
Yesss great movie
1:43 the text in the downleft corner, I *FELT* that
😅
Mamizou going back to the outside world to watch this video.
This Yokai story of the Tanuki is really nuts! I love it!
This yokai is my favorite along with the Yuki Onna
😂
Smh no one remembers the okuri ookami
_the title tho-_
😅
Which tanuki woodblock painting do you like the most?
Yes
@@L0rdOfThePies 😂
"Flexing" & scrotum man 😂😂
@@Calvini2013 scrotum man is popular
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. 😆
Balls of steel? Nah. *BALLS OF FLOOF*
I'd rather suffocate in between a kitsune's 9 tails tho
*BALLS OF FLOOFY GOLD*
Thank you so much @Linfamy for doing a video on my recommendation 💗💗
:D
for more tanuki action, please refer to 'medicinal friend' episode of south park
I died at 6:14
Oh no I have killed a viewer
only 2 tanukis i know of, futatsuiwa mamizou and a random one (from a manga) that went *「YELLOW TEMPERANCE」* on kirisame marisa
I´ve suscribed just now. I just love your channel, mixes pokemon with culture, simply the best, greetings from Mexico!!
Cheers from USA!
I forgot this video existed
7:16
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.)
love this stories, please do more video about yokais
Pom poko is literally how I know the tanuki song ^^; one of my favorite ghibli movies
The sheer number of euphemisms in this video is goddamn LEGENDARY. Respect!
This video definitelly must have broke a record guiness about nut puns! Not complaining tho it was pure fun. TaNUTkis are awesome!
4:09 i cannot unsee :,>
😬
Your singing voice is actually kinda nice. That song about raccoon dog balls was soothing
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
Glad it was helpful ;)
I am never disappointed by one of your videos.
Yes! 💗
6:18 okay the rest is acceptable. But making mochi using that sack just... eeewwww!
Yaaay! My recommendation was listened🥺🥺💗💗💗💗💗
This is my fav so far. You’re such the best! 😂
Glad you like :)
"How come you can talk?"
The farmer asking the real questions here
"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.
I love this channel
The scrotal drum (scrum) got me
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
Sorry it was about balls, hope you didn't dream about balls.
And go to sleep! :P
Nah, it was the baby
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.
don't worry that's what furries are for
Lol, I love the way you sang
So many ball uses, fascinating
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
and americans= big balls/bust/ass (depending on gender)
6:24 SCROTUM MANNNNNNNNNNNNN
lol thats got to be my favorite one XD
It's pretty creative 😂
@@Linfamy now we need to add these scrotum powers to tanooki mario
Gosh! The artists are so creative hahahahaha
Ah 10 minutes of complete and random strangers all laughing at euphemisms for ballsack. I expect nothing less from this corner of the internet, and you delivered perfectly
You know it’s gonna be a good video when you hear the words “balls” and “nuts” in the first 20 seconds.
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?
;)
I chocked on my drink at the song
That story was completely nuts
this is interesting but also insane lol! XD
Quite 😂
tom nook u got some explaining to do my guy
Watched Pom Poko a little while ago and this makes me think of that it again.
The most well endowed of all the yokai! These woodblock prints are the best!😂