Japanese ghost kitty for halloween

[Kayla Woodrunner]

Hi Winter,
I hadn't heard that about bakeneko's dancing with a handkerchief so I went searching for an image. I thought this one was fun.

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Hi Kayleigh,
the cool thing about bakeneko is that any cat who reached 10 years of age could potentially become a bakeneko and take partly or totally human form. Although if you wave a fish in the face of a human and it makes a quick grab for it, it could be a dead giveaway. Or maybe catnip.

Some bakenekos would be friendly to humans (or at least their owners who had them for the first ten years of their lives). Others would haunt humans or try to destory them. So we could have friendly bakeneko cats in a pretty kimono and scarey bakeneko cats.

I'd be sucker for a pretty kimono on a kittycat. Like you I'm not a full collector (although I made an exception and tried to get most of the romanticats). Mostly I just buy maybe 1 or 2 if a special comes out. I'm not good at sales so I don't buy specials to hold and sell later. I buy them if I like them. So kimonos count me in (especially if one of them had a purple kimono). Speaking of colors: color meaning is different in Japan. A scarlet kimono is a wedding kimono; red being the color for good luck. A white kimono is often associated with ghosts because white is the color of death. I don't know if purple has a special meaning. I'm going to look and see if I can find a bakeneko in a samurai kimono.