manumit
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Raccoon dogs are native to East Asia, including parts of China, Korea and Japan, where they are known as tanuki.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Or maybe you’ve seen them in the lesser-known Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko, about folkloric tanuki.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2023
Both varieties of pottery are subtle and austere, save for one touch: There’s a sake flask whose stopper is shaped like a tanuki, a raccoon dog that figures prominently in Japanese folklore.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022
Contrast that to the on-menu housemade tanuki tofu, which made a pleasant hot-day snack, but dissolved in the mouth in unsettling wet crumbles.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2019
All around them they heard strange calls, but this time Hanako knew it was tanuki, maybe the very same one that had brought them luck.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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