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Japanese References?

Not being an expert on Chinese folklore I won't comment on the information provided here, but I am working my way through List of legendary creatures from Japan, where this is listed, and was curious if anyone had any references where the Japanese quotes came from? I did a Google Book Search but the only books I could find used this article as their source. Any suggestions? Duende-Poetry (talk) 12:34, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I find the info. on Hoko very useful excspecial cause im writing a fanfiction with him/her/it as one of the base charies. :) I would like more info about the Hoko though... like what it's powers are... it'd be cool if it could use shadows like the Nara clan of Naruto*. :D

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Five Tails and etc.

This article is about folklore. Please do not re-add unverifiable information about magic tails unless you can come up with a reference outside of popular culture (or youkaimura.org, which is not held to be reliable by the Japanese mythology team). Thank you. Kotengu 04:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, this is what the Japanese-language internet has to say about the Hoko:

This says when you cut a big camphor tree and blood comes out, the hoko is inside. It is the spirit of a tree.

This says it is the spirit of a tree. It has the form of a black dog with a :human face. It has no tail.

This says there is a tree spirit called Hoko with the form of a big dog with a human face.

This says the kodama is derived from the Chinese Hoko.

This says according to Toriyama Sekien, it lives in a thousand year old tree, has a shape like a black dog, has a face like a person's, and has no tail.

Kotengu 05:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]