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Everybody seems to be asleep when we first land: the only living creature visible is a cat, sitting on the stern of a boat; and even that cat, according to Japanese beliefs, might not be a real cat, but an o-bake or a nekomata -- in short, a goblin-cat, for it has a long tail.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Partly because of the immorality of this cat, and partly because it happens to have a long tail, it has the evil reputation of being a nekomata, or goblin cat.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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(no subject) - mela_lyn - Feb. 19th, 2010 03:18 pm (UTC) Expand nekomata wrote:
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