Talk:Tatara/@comment-76.246.41.182-20140729035028/@comment-139.193.96.138-20150222161427

Because fire rat's robe actually famous from the real japanese myth "kaguya and the bamboo cutter". It said that Kaguya requested one of her suitors to bring her the robe from Fire rat's fur/leather from China. His suitor tried to cheat by bringing here fake robe, while unknown to him that the real robe is incombustible. Hencefort the story in Inuyasha, this one, and other anime and games.

Though, the based myth of this creature is from china though not too famous. Said to be rat living in volcano located in south china sea with fireproof fur (i'm into myth so kinda lov to read stories like this lol). I'm not good with mandarin but just in case anyone who can read mandarin and know more in detail from this article. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%81%AB%E9%BC%A0