Okimono in bronze with double brown and chocolate patina, depicting a tanuki standing on its hind legs, its head covered with a worn straw headdress attached to its neck with a rope. It is carrying a sake bottle on its two front paws. Its eyes are golden. A hollow under the left paw suggests that there was originally a cartouche with the artist's signature. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) H. 18 cm