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Tanuki Scroll IX: ๅฏใฆใใใ ใใฎไปไบ 
Pretty tired today, spent awhile just lazily clicking through pages with no idea what I was in the mood to read, then saw this:
My mood today perfectly summed up in one picture.
It was under a section of the site Iโve not really explored before (all stories for the zodiacs), but it says itโs a folktale from Wakayama Prefecture.
About a man who is lazy and wants to be paid to sleep and eat rice, conveniently a circus owner is looking for someone to do just thatโฆ but he has to wear the skin of a tiger and pretend to be one. (?)Their show tiger died, soโฆ get a human to do it? (??) All is good, he gets paid to eat and sleep.
But then they want a tiger vs. lion braw. He gets put in a cage and the lion approaches him and whispers that he is also a guy wearing animal skin pretending to be a lion. (???)
I have so many questions about this story
The narrator is also hilarious, it sounds like heโs having so much fun 
โ Learnings โ
New Words
่ฆใ็ฉๅฐๅฑใใฟใใใฎใใใใผ Circus / Freak show
ใจใใงใ็กใใใจใใงใใชใใใผ Unthinkable; Absurd (or my favourite: Preposterous!)
ๆชปใใใใใผ Cage, pen
ใคใณใใญใผ Cheating; Fraud; Bogus; Trickery
These are such nice books, I love the art!