Hey Cris,
Thanks for the addition!
The fox, or kitsune as they are known in Japan, are seen as the tricksters or pranksters of the animal world, similar in a way to our view of the fox as being ‘cunning’. They are believed to possess magical powers and can often assume human form. The work I created was inspired by an original illustration by “Tsukioka Yoshitoshi” which was based on this story:”The Heian noble, Abe no Yasuna, when walking in the garden of the Inari temple in Kyoto, rescued a fox that was being hunted for its liver—used in Japanese medicine. Shortly thereafter, he met and married a beautiful girl named Kuzunoha. She bore him a son, but, after three years, she left him. Three days after she left, she appeared to him in a dream, telling him not to mourn, for she was not human, but the fox he had rescued”.