Hoho! It took me a while, but I DID find the word you meant. Apparently "itachi" means "weasel", and I can only assume the "shiro" is the character for "white", so white weasel. Hmmmm.
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Originally Posted by insaneferret
edit, just noticed, would *kyou*teki = kyoo ?
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"Kyoo" and "kyou" are two different ways of spelling the same Japanese sounds, and "-teki" is something stuck onto, say, a state to make it an adjective. In Japanese, adjectives do generally come before the noun they describe. What I forgot in my first post there was that "na" usually follows to make the subject clearer.
So now that I've confused everyone including myself, the final product would be "kyouteki na shiroitachi"! I may still be mistaken, but as far as I know it's correct. Brzap!
THAT was painstaking.
EDIT: Make sure to rename it to a .jpg when you save it, ferret: it's a .txt right now for direct-linking purposes from GeoCities.
And re: ferret's avatar, it's a really weird reference to Japanese mythology. Raccoon dogs are known in Japan as "tanuki", and generally portrayed as drunken mischief-makers who play tricks by shapeshifting into teakettles or monks. They are deities of gluttony and drunkenness, and for some bizarre reason are often portrayed with comically gigantic balls. I couldn't make this stuff up, folks!