Meaning and background
The story behind Kitsune
Kitsune has a documented Japanese fox-story association in museum collections. The British Museum records a print titled Kyubi no kitsune and supplies the English title The Nine-tailed Fox; it also lists Genkuro Kitsune as a Japanese literary character with a role in kabuki. Those sources connect the spelling to particular artistic and theatrical traditions. They support a cultural reference for a dog name without treating every use of Kitsune as an inherited personal name.
- Association
- Japanese cultural association with fox imagery and theatrical or literary characters. Source · Source 2
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Kitsune appears in 9 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
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