Shippeitarō
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or Shippei Taro (German spelling: Schippeitaro; or ) is the name of a helper dog in the Japanese fairy tale by the same name.
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Variant traditions
- Nomenclature
- Translations
- Synopsis
- Variants
- Shizuoka and Nagano
- Yanahime-jinja
- Kōzen-ji
- Types of evil spirits
- Tale types
- Precursor
- Old printed books
- Kabuki
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- See also
or Shippei Taro (German spelling: Schippeitaro; or ) is the name of a helper dog in the Japanese fairy tale by the same name.
== Etymology == Although the name Shippeitaro has been written suggesting a connection to a bamboo hitting stick in Buddhist religion, it has been asserted to be a corruption of meaning "swift wind Tarō", and the same characters can also be read Hayatetarō, thus explaining variant names such as Hayatarō "swift Tarō".
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