Kyobu Tanuki/Origin

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Origin 1
Kyobu, or Gyobu, is a rather famous, and powerful tanuki.

Origin 2
The tanuki has a long history in Japanese legend and folklore. Bake-danuki are a kind of tanuki yōkai found in the classics and in the folklore and legends of various places in Japan. Although the tanuki is a real, extant animal, the bake-danuki that appears in literature has always been depicted as a strange, even supernatural animal. The earliest appearance of the bake-danuki in literature, in the chapter about Empress Suiko in the Nihon Shoki written during the Nara period, there are such passages as "in two months of spring, there are tanuki in the country of Mutsu, they turn into humans and sing songs". Bake-danuki subsequently appear in such classics as the Nihon Ryōiki and the Uji Shūi Monogatari. In some regions of Japan, bake-danuki are reputed to have abilities similar to those attributed to kitsune (foxes): they can shapeshift into other things, shapeshift people, and possess human beings. Male Tanuki have the ability to inflate their testicles, while Female have the ability to inflate their breasts.