Danzaburou was a human merchant's name in Echigo, and in Meireki 3 (1657), there were on sale for-breeding small tanuki that were used in the Sado gold mines for taking skins for the sides of bellows, and afterwards Danzaburou, who started taking care of the tanuki in Sado, was sidely respected by the islands, and there is a theory that the tanuki itself was worshiped like an ujigami.