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Kuniyoshi ProjectRaccoon Dogs (Tanuki, 狸) Publishers: Kazusa-ya Iwazô and Echizen-ya Heisaburô c. 1842 This series of comic prints alludes to the supposed ability of raccoon dogs to voluntarily enlarge their scrotums. It is listed as 209 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). Robinson translated tanuki as “badgers”, but “raccoon dogs” seems to be more correct. The ima
