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A Tanuki sake vendor

A Tanuki sake vendor

Collections record: O.32-2008

A tanuki (sake vendor), wearing a lotus leaf hat.

His tongue is moveable. He is shown holding a sake bottle inscribed hachi (‘eight’, which is the trademark of sake producers) and a book inscribed kayoi (‘order book’)

Given by Dr Roy Hull

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