Shibaemon-tanuki

[3] While disguised as a human and in the middle of performing an act, he was attacked by a dog and killed, but the details of the tale differ depending on region and literature.

Mikuma (三熊山) behind the city of Sumoto, Awaji island, he lived with his wife Omasu (お増) and on moonlight nights with good weather, he drummed his belly.

Shibaemon, who was stricken with grief, was about to return to Awaji, but decided to at least watch the play that Omasu wanted to see and used a technique to change tree leaves into gold and went to the theater.

However, at the theater, there were tree leaves that were mixed in with the admission fees, so they suspected that a bake-danuki has slipped in among the guests and a guard dog was put on alert.

Shibaemon immediately returned to his appearance as a tanuki, was chased around by the people who brought the dog and finally hit in the head and killed.

[5] Afterwards, Shibaemon, as a popular god, was deeply worshipped by many actors such as Nakamura Ganjirou, Kataoka Nizaemon and Fujiyama Kanbi.

[8][9] In the Edo period, at the base of Mount Seimi (勢見山) in Awa Province (now Tokushima prefecture), there was a theater business at the grounds of Kan'on-ji, and it earned great popularity.

At that time, there was a business that came from Naniwa to visit Awaji to perform a play titled "Takeda Izumo," so the tanuki disguised as an old man also went, but due to bad luck, was bitten by a dog on his way back and died.