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Ideal wife and sexual vampire. Prankster and saint. Tree and train. The Japanese fox left her paw-print on Japanese culture. She challenges traditional, negative views of women. She brings harmony and division. She possesses and protects. She is the shape of Japan's soul. Discover why the fox is Japan's most storied animal. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This being said I have to thank the author for making me understanding something I was scratching my head on:
Why people are hell bent on killing kitsunes in some stories.
While someone living in feudal japan would immediately know why, exactly like a greek would have understood why amazons were bad, to us that is mostly lost.
The reason is because the Kitsunes embodied multiple taboo and fears all crammed into one entity. They were intelligent, cunning and smart women who were often indipedent. Add to this the fact that most Kitsunes also were indipedent and better than their human husbands and you get the picture why they were considered so much dangerous. For a man to be less intelligent than a woman was considered a grave insult.
Also, I never realized how shitty feudal japan was for women. It's completely dystopic and horrifying.
The author also explained the often missed practical reason why "magical owning fox families" were excluded from villages: to preserve the secular hierarchy of the village. Althought I feel like in most cases this practical reason was forgotten in favor of hysteria and panic, followed by brutal killing, of the "possesed and fox owning families".