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Kinchō Daimyōjin VI. (六代目金長, Rokudaime Kinchō) is a sage of Shikoku in Pom Poko. He is the father to Koharu. He later trained Tamasaburo to become his successor.

For him all Racoon Dogs are important. So he would never leave a racoon dog behind, even he could save more life by doing it. He wants to save everybody.

However, he is convinced by a fox named Ryutaro to tell the tanuki who can transform to live among the humans. This inadvertently causes the tanuki to disband; some are killed while blocking traffic going into New Tama, others join a suicide cult, and the remaining tanuki, for a while, are at a complete loss.

Trivia[]

  • Along with other two elders from Shikoku and Danzaburō of Sado, Kinchō is one of the most famous and powerful tanukis in Japanese folklores.
  • Kinchō is the only member of the three elders to survive, and was the most featured character of the three.
  • Daimyōjin refers to a type of powerful gods in Shintoism.
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