[fox] Tenko (天狐) are a type of divine beast in Japanese folklore. A fox (kitsune) that lives for 1000 years becomes a tenko. They are able to see a thousand ri ahead. They have nine tails unlike the lower-ranked existences, the yako (fox), the kiko (fox) and the kūko (fox). Tenko are of the highest rank of foxes in the Edo period, and ...
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For decades, the term served both narrowly as a moral litmus test in evaluating the careers of intellectuals active before and after the war and more broadly as a metaphor for the collective experience of an entire generation of Japanese. One of the most well known and consequential instances of Tenko came in June 1933, when Sano Manabu (1892—19...
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