Kitsune Cap - キツネ Resin lantern The sakura cap that carries

The sakura cap that carries two fleeting weeks of blossom

new-year visits and quiet everyday prayers

This is the dragon at its most three-dimensional — a full sculptural head rearing off the band

Lightweight and lustrous with a satin-finish sheen

Kitsune Cap - キツネ Resin lantern The sakura cap that carriesThe kitsune cap carrying a thousand years of fox folklore The kitsune is Japan's most layered folklore figure a fox that gains intelligence with age, shapeshifts into human form, and serves Inari, the deity of rice and prosperity. Revered and feared in equal measure, it runs through a thousand years of tales as both trickster and guardian. This cap stitches a kitsune fox spirit on the front in embroidered detail, the form worked in thread for relief