big balls Sculpture

This listing is for one Raku Ceramic Tanuki.Even after living in Japan 3 years, I NEVER noticed that the Tank statue you see everywhere, actually is a Racoon with very large balls, and a stiffy. SO when I started researching pictures and images of Tank, I was really surprised that most of them had this feature. So I thought it was kind of funny. "The tanuki has a mixed reputation in Japan. Statues of the full-bellied (and large-testicled) tanuki can be found throughout Japan, even if pollution and urban sprawl have taken their toll on the actual animal after which the trickster takes its name and form. The tanuki is a shape-shifter, and his testicles play an important role in his shifting. Tanukis have legendarily been known to use their testicles as makeshift raincoats, as weapons, and as drums. They knead and massage them into the shape they desire, and often impersonate humans to buy alcohol and delicacies, which is where the tanuki fits into modern Japanese culture. " () Raku, as well, connects me, with my Japanese ancestry. A Heritage lost, basically, by Immigration. It is not the first generation or the Second, that will register this as a loss, as they are still living the heyday of a false integration, but the third and fourth generation, may feel that slight twinge of Nostalgia for Belonging to a culture to which they will never be able to return to.