For all that have been to Kenka on St. Marks and managed to remember leaving, you may have noticed that statue of a cracked out badger/raccoon looking thing out front. Well this apparently is known as a "tanuki," the Japanese raccoon-dog that symbolizes financial luck. It also has huge balls. Big balls lead to financial good luck. Here's a print, made by the 19th century Japanese U-keyoi aritist Yoshitoshi, showing some japenese guys getting pumped as shit about some tanuki over sized balls. Also, apparently the actual tanuki dogs have big balls as well.Thanks Japan.
