Size: Kitsune are about the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Base Height is 4'10 with a +2d10 modifier.
Appearance. Kitsune basically look like human/fox hybrids. They have reddish fur all over most of their bodies, fox-like ears, fox-like muzzles, complete with fangs, claws, vulpine legs/paws, and fox-like tails on their lower backs.
Kitsune have as many as nine tails. Generally, a greater number of tails indicates an older and more powerful Kitsune; in fact, some folktales say that a fox will only grow additional tails after it has lived 100 years.
This variety has thin legs, but they are good at digging dens, with tunnels as long as 30 meters stretching under woodlands and open fields. Adult length: 80 to 120 cm; weight: 4 to 7 kg. The fox is given an honored place at Fushimi Inari Shrine, one of Kyoto's oldest shrines.
Kitsune can have as many as nine tails. When a kitsune gains its ninth tail, its fur becomes white or gold. With such powerful abilities, you may wonder how to kill a kitsune. Legends say that to kill a Japanese kitsune, you have to cut off all its tails.
The fox spirit is an especially prolific shapeshifter, known variously as the húli jīng (fox spirit) and jiǔwěihú (nine-tailed fox) in China, the kitsune (fox) in Japan, the kumiho (nine-tailed fox) in Korea, and the hồ ly tinh (fox spirit) or cáo tinh (fox spirit, a synonym of hồ ly tinh) and cửu vĩ hồ or cáo chín ...
In Japanese mythology, there are said to be 13 types of kitsune, which correspond to different elements—celestial, wind, spirit, darkness, fire, earth, river, ocean, forest, mountain, thunder, sound, and time. Broadly, they can also be broken into two groups—zenko, or good, and nogitsune, or bad.
Tails represent power of a kitsune, the more tails a kitsune has, the more powerful it is. A Nine Tailed Kitsune has to live for 1000 years to have 9 tails and that's the maximum number of tails a kitsune can have. They grow a new tail every 100 years and are considered the most powerful type of fox spirit.
The lifespan of a kitsune depends strongly on the number of tails they have, with one tailed individuals living 75 years or so, while those with multiple tails can live well into their second century and beyond.
Inari Ōkami (Japanese: 稲荷大神), also called Ō-Inari (大稲荷), is the Japanese kami of foxes, fertility, rice, tea and sake, of agriculture and industry, of general prosperity and worldly success, and one of the principal kami of Shinto. In earlier Japan, Inari was also the patron of swordsmiths and merchants.
Kitsunes are born with a single tail which is considered smaller and thinner than a normal fox tail, this tail will naturally grow over time developing into a full foxtail by the time they are in their first 15 years of their life, then eventually by the time they reach the age of 100, it will be fully developed into a ...
In kitsune lore, once a fox reaches the age of 100, they gain the power of shapeshifting. The fox grows a new tail every century until they have nine, and the color of their fur will eventually change from red to gold and finally to white (Geller).
If a Kitsune loses all of their tails through either giving them away or having them stolen (or in rare cases, destroyed), they will become exceptionally weak and frail, similar to an anemic human, and will lose all of their powers.
Size: Kitsune are about the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall.
Though Kitsune have normal human eyes while in human form, they can make their irises glow orange/gold, which, much like with most supernatural creatures, allows them to better access their supernatural abilities.
Kitsune have a fear or a hatred of dogs. Dogs can detect kitsune. Until they gain their ninth tail, kitsune are essentially physical foxes. Kitsune can be consumed by negative emotions easily to the point that it can lead to death.
Shapeshifting: Kitsunes are able to shapeshift themselves into other forms. Kitsunes can either make themselves an older version of themselves or even a younger version as well as changing their height and weight. They can even change their gender to that of the opposite one if they so please.
A common belief is that a Kitsune will never have more kits in a litter than she has tails, but this has never been proven. Non-Kitsune mothers traditionally only have one child.
Accelerated Healing: Kitsune possess an enhanced regenerative healing ability that gives them immunity from any human illness or condition.
Tail Manifestation
The most commonly depicted are one-tails, five-tails, and nine-tails. For most kitsune, the number of tails shown is usually one. This can be for a number of reasons, though, including the idea that kitsune could be in a human or fox, possessing it, or may have been born in a mortal body.
There are 13 types of Kitsune: Celestial, Spirit, Wild, River, Wind, Time, Sound, Forest, Mountain, Fire, Thunder, Ocean and Void.
Kitsune no Yomeiri: Both Tanuki and Kitsune are uncontrollable pranksters who share a relatively friendly rivalry, having regular competitions to see who can prank the most humans in a single day.
After reaching 1,000 years of age gaining its ninth tail, a kitsune turns a golden color, becoming a 'Tenko' (天狐 "heavenly fox"/"celestial fox"), the most powerful form of the kitsune, and then ascends to the heavens.
In traditional Japanese performing arts such as Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki, fox masks are used to depict the Kitsune, who is known for its shapeshifting abilities, intelligence, and mischievous nature. The fox mask has different types and each type of mask is associated with a different personality of Kitsune.
Kitsune is often portrayed as mischievous and known for playing tricks on humans. However, it can also be seen as a symbol of good fortune, particularly in the Shinto religion from Japan.