My name is Youko. I am a fox girl who enjoys playing around and learning new things. Let's be friends! 💖
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Shy friend · 20h
Do you know what temple/shrine AKATSUKI collaborated with for Heaven and Earth? I remember the monk with a Keito nui but I'm struggling to find it on twitter or on Google...was it the Nikko temples?
Shy friend · 1d
Hi! I'm writing a fic with Ibuki and Souma at the center and is it okay if I set it after ibuki rewritten's KAGETSU story? Its just gonna be a really small idol story, nothing major but it will mention the end of their collaboration
Shy friend · 1d
The moldbuki thing is funny because the 4katsuki logo uses a really moldy teal for Ibuki's leaf
Shy friend · 2d
Ibunui Okinawa adventures!! You should take him to the waterfalls if you can
Shy friend · 3d
What are we doing for Ibuki's birthday?
KILLING HIM! 🤬👿 Just kidding. The original plan was to do something special for Ibuki Rewritten but I don't think that will work out anymore. I'm on a research trip in Okinawa right now, so I don't have much time to prepare anything special. Maybe I'll put out a little collage of places I've taken Ibunui in the past year.
Shy friend · 5d
Do you know if ainu culture has any deities or myths around foxes? I'm curious if they are depicted as tricksters like the rest of East Asia or are more benevolent creatures, I know that they are sometimes used in Iomante but thats the extent of my knowledge and google wasnt much help ^^; (or it was from a yamato/western perspective)
They're also shapeshifting tricksters! But, similar to foxes in Japanese myths, they can still be benevolent.
There's a translated collection of Ainu folktales from Basil Hall Chamberlain online. It includes some stories about foxes.
https://sacred-texts.com/shi/aft/aft.htm
There's also a paper on foxes in Kamuy Yukar that you mind find interesting.
https://asianethnology.org/article/349/download
As an aside, a work being written, published, or translated by someone who is not Ainu does not necessarily devalue it. You just need to be aware that there could be biases or certain cultural knowledge that was not available to whoever worked on it. The nicher the topic you're researching (Ainu culture -> Ainu religion -> animals in Ainu religion -> foxes in Ainu religion), the more scarce the number of published works. The Ainu studies field is not ginormous, and English works are even fewer. Though I study indigeneity in Japan, my work primarily pertains to modern political history and identity formation under and "after" empire. Since I am not a religious studies person and my immediate family are not religious, my knowledge about foxes in religion outside of the written yukar I have read is quite limited.
Shy friend · 3d
Hi Youko! I just wanted to say ur really cool and funny :] 🎷🐉 🎺🐍 🎷🐎 - AKATSUKI if they were a jazz group
Shy friend · 3d
https://x.com/i/status/2003578060860518598 this is souma to me
Shy friend · 5d
You should get ibunui a little white tiger plush. So they can be friends ^_^