Question

One of these beings named Yon (rhymes with “own”) regularly features in the work of Ayako Ishiguro. An artist depicted silhouettes resembling a demon and a horned owl that could be revealed to be these creatures posing. God created these animals to convey the feminine essence according to Tsuguharu Foujita (soo-goo-HAH-roo FOO-jee-tah), who made a twenty-drawing series of them. Puns on these animals are depicted in a woodblock print in (15[3])which they replace the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. Utagawa (*) Kuniyoshi’s prints and studios (10[1])were filled with these animals. Common depictions of these animals include a young one belonging to the Third Princess from the Tale of Genji (10[2])and ghostly ones called bakeneko (BAH-kay-“NECK-oh”). For 10 points name these domestic animals, which hold a coin and lift a paw in contemporary good luck statues. ■END■

ANSWER: cats [accept neko until “bakeneko” and prompt thereafter] (Yon is a cat belonging to Ayako Ishiguro and her husband Junji Ito.)
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