Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220426 
Tanuki Scroll XXVI: ネコ岳の化けネコ 
Read today’s hyakumonogatari, which is about cats again, this time a whole mountain of cat.
A travelling merchant gets lost in the mountains, he hears a ニャー！as if from nowhere and follows it. But this is no normal cat, this is Nekodake, big bad ghost cat of the mountain realm. He finds a mansion in the middle of the mountain and asks to stay the night - but neither is he safe here, for it is a mansion of Nekodake’s cat-minions. They try to trick him into having a bath were the water is magic cat water and will turn him into a cat. Luckily one of the cats (a calico again!) recognises him and tells him to flee.
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
本格的「ほんかくてき」ー Genuine; Authentic; Real
親玉「おやだま」ー Boss; Head
Places
阿蘇山「あそざん」ー Mt. Aso, Kumamoto prefecture