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    Kitsune, Yōkai-rousel Enamel Pin

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    2" soft enamel pin

    $15.00
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    Everyone loves kitsune! These foxy shapeshifters are known for their tricksy ways. Their kitsune-bi (fox fire) can sometimes be seen on lonely roads, or you might catch them blending with crowds at festivals to enjoy their favorite treats. Our pin includes a pinwheel which our kitsune found at a matsuri (probably a hanami or flower-viewing festival, given the colored dango) and his prized jewel, called a hoshi no tama.

    Salvatore “Cherni” Chernigliaro carved for Gustav Dentzel and the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. He introduced many menagerie animals to the Dentzel company during his tenure there, including a carousel cat which inspired this kitsune. Each Cherni cat had an alert, raised head, a waving paw on the non-romance side, and a creature in its mouth, usually a bird or mouse. Cherni was an incredibly skilled carver and headman, and his carved fur textures always added a note of realism and whimsy to his creations.

    Did you know? The term “headman” comes from the carousel industry? It refers to the most skilled carver in a workshop who would carve the heads (hence the term), which required the most detail and talent to render.

    Did you know? Carousel animals have a romance side and a non-romance side. The romance side features elaborate carvings and is the side facing the outside of the carousel, showing off its trappings. The non-romance side faces the interior of the carousel and is less elaborate, since someone only sees it while getting on or off the animal.

     

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