Tamamo-No-Mae, The Kitsune Queen.
Inari was said to have arrived in Japan during its creation riding on the back of a white fox. A harsh famine had struck the land, ushering the goddess from her heavenly abode into the land of mankind carrying grains to liberate the starving people from their hunger.
Biography. Not much is known about Tamamo no Mae's early life, as she is a woman shrouded in mystery. However, records said that she was born 3.500 years ago in ancient China. As hundred years passed, she had become a powerful sorceress and transformed herself as a beautiful white faced nine tailed fox with golden fur.
A nine-tailed fox spirit or better known as Kitsune, Tamamo is hell-bent on causing chaos and mayhem across the country by disguising herself as a concubine of several kings and also responsible for plunging Japan into a civil war after her death.
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.
Kitsune can be either male or female. Usually, a mythical Japanese fox takes the form of young Japanese girls, beautiful women, and older men. In fact, there are many tales of Japanese kitsune transforming into beautiful women to trap powerful men.
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.
After reaching 1,000 years of age and gaining its ninth tail, a kitsune turns a white or golden color, becoming a tenko (天狐, 'heavenly/celestial fox'), the most powerful form of the kitsune, and then ascends to the heavens.
Kaze Kitsune
These kitsune are incredibly rare and are said to bring good luck to those who find them.
Kurama is no doubt the single most popular Kitsune in anime. This nine-tailed beast was used by humans for many years as a deadly tool that made him hate humanity.
The kumiho is typically pictured as taking a female form when transforming into a human being (as indicated in the encyclopedia entries), but the kumiho in The Maiden who Discovered a Kumiho through a Chinese Poem turns into a young man who attempts to trick the maiden into marrying him.
Kurama is the strongest of all the Tailed Beasts and the iconic partner of Naruto Uzumaki. However, other than Naruto, Kurama also had other Jinchuriki. Kurama was formerly sealed in mito Uzumaki and, Kushina Uzumaki after her.
Inari(also known as Gurēsu Ryujin) is the empress of all kitsunes and the mother and eventual lover Setsuna Ryujin, as the mother of all kitsunes/Inari.
Kira Yukimura is the daughter of Noshiko and Ken Yukimura and is a Thunder 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.
kitsune, trickster foxes from traditional Japanese folklore. They are a type of yōkai, a class of supernatural creatures with godlike powers, often equated to the English ghoul or demon. Kitsune are noted for their paranormal abilities, particularly metamorphosis. As they age, these abilities can become more powerful.
Born usually from a human and a kitsune parent, half-kitsune is a combination of the two.
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 ...
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.
Other kitsune have characteristics reminiscent of vampires or succubi and feed on the life or spirit of human beings, generally through sexual contact.
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.
A kitsune demigod, kitsune, or fox demigod describes the anthropomorphic fox species that carries special abilities and human intelligence. Some of the individuals under this species include Senko, Shiro, and Yozora.
Anubis was one of the most frequently represented deities in ancient Egyptian art.
According to legends, the gods will often choose animals to act as their avatars or messengers. In the case of Inari, this animal is depicted as a white fox.