open culture brings us Oira no Yaku (Our Baseball Game), a six-minute anime short from 1931, which shows rabbits squaring off against tanukis (raccoon dogs) in a game of baseball. (The short is a basic slapstick comedy elegantly told with clean, simple lines. Rabbits and tanukis are mainstays of Japanese folklore, though they are seen here playing a sport that was introduced to the country in the 1870s.)
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