Ivory 112 x 31 x 15 mm.

Tall and slender, a fox (kitsune) has transformed himself into a priest. He is wearing a hood (hyôbo and hanada-bôshi) of the kind worn by priests, especially of the Buddhist Tendai school. His fore-paws, human hands, are holding the bamboo staff. His feet, too, are those of a human being. The fox's face with slant, narrowed eyes has a malicious and sly expression.

The representation is an allusion to the main character in the Kyogen play Tsurigitsune, the Fox Trap. A sly fox transforms himself into a priest called Hyakuzôsu. His hood drawn over his head and equipped with a staff he appears before hunters warning them not to catch foxes, because they can turn themselves into human beings in revenge on those who hunt them. Legend also has it that vixens can transform themselves into young girls in order to seduce men in this guise and rob them.