#chuusagi

[tanuki-kimono]

Nice comparative chart by nature guide Kumasuke, showing the size differences between heron/egret species found commonly in Japan:

Daisagi: great white heron or great egret. Note how the blue-green gape going past the eye

Chûsagi: intermediate egret or yellow-billed egret. Note the yellow gape stopping under the eye

Kosagi: little egret. Note the yellow feet + the fluffy crown

If I remember well, most egret/heron species slightly change coloring and/or grow fluffy feathers during mating season. Those feathers were once used for kanzashi hairpins, a remnant are the katsuyama kanzashi worn by maiko for Gion matsuri (see the butterflies faint "antennas"?):

Nowadays egret are protected and feathers still in use are from ancient stocks.

Egret species are often virtually impossible to tell apart in Japanese patterns. On this blog, I simply tag any of those birds under "sagi" :)

[anemiaman]

Akubun and Chuusagi~

[kronnoandfriends-blog]

 i saw zootopia 3 times 

[delightingdreams]

more chu

[delightingdreams]

a rabbit who’ll fall for a fox probs

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popsicle fiends ??? idk, wanted to draw summer stuff and furries,, and I just made up a summer outfit for muerte @crowtez