Sky Fox (mythology)
| Sky Fox Celestial Fox | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tenko, in the Hokusai Manga by Hokusai Katsushika | |||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 天狐 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Korean name | |||||||
| Hangul | 천호 | ||||||
| Hanja | 天狐 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Japanese name | |||||||
| Kanji | 天狐 | ||||||
| Hiragana | てんこ | ||||||
| |||||||
The Sky Fox (Chinese: 天狐; pinyin: tiān hú), or Celestial Fox is a type of divine beast in East Asian mythology. After reaching 1,000 years of age and gaining its ninth tail, a fox spirit turns a golden color, becoming a sky fox, the most powerful form of the fox spirit, and then ascends to the heavens. With its new celestial form, it is able to see a thousand li ahead (c. 3,927 km (2,440 mi)).