Featured Chinese (?) Wood carving

This is not an antique, but what forum is best? I dunno.

This is about 10" tall, of one consistent piece of pretty heavy / dense wood, and imo pretty well executed.

Who is it? Is that a dog with rabbit ears? Grain (?) and ??? in their hands?

Thank you!

 

A turnip?

 

Japanese Ainu piece perhaps ?
''For the Ainu( Hokkaido, North Japan), the Wolf was an important god, Horkew Kamuy, the "Howling God"/ "White Wolf God" /"Lord Wolf God" -more or less equal to the Japanese word kami-'god', 'divine spirit', etc.
There are myths of a white wolf that mated with a goddess, and the offspring from this union became the ancestors of the Ainu people( comparable to North American native and Mongolian creation myths)."
PS-Beautiful piece !
PSS-Foxes are also big in Japanese Mythos.,OR it could be Wiley Coyote.

 

I've not marked a "Best Answer" before, but the simple response

is sure a candidate.

Thanks @LauraGarnet02!!

 

LOL.

 

I've had an Ainu bear carving before and I guess the wood does indeed look similar... Thanks for the lead @bosko69!

 

Korean maybe.......?

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/87749892722900809/

Japanese Inari, a rice god (sometimes goddess) depicted riding a flying fox, and holding a rice sheaf and the "wish-fulfilling jewel" (not a turnip).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_Ōkami

 

Inari. That has got to be it! Very interesting links @2manybooks !

 

Please note the 'turnip' at the tip of the fox's tail!?

 

I love the turnip theme here.
Turnips are underrated.

 

"-Where's my turnip ?"

 

@wlwhittier I didn't notice that the first time I looked at that drawing this morning.
In my defense, it is a harvest theme, with the god/goddess carrying a sheaf of grain, so I thought turnip was logical, lol.

 

The longer they stay inna ground, the better I like 'em...ideally long enough to return to the soil all the nutrients wasted in their sprouting an' growth to maturity (I can't imagine they ever ripen, in the classical sense of that word)!
Parsnips, on the other hand...well, that's a long & delicious story...I won't bore you with all the buttery details.
An' then there's Rutabagas...I'll leave it to others to tidy up this discussion with common curses (or rarer praises) for this first cousin to the dread Turnip! Thanks for listening!

 

I think I've made myself perfectly clear on this subject!

 

oh help me, I can't stop

 

By the way what are your feelings on kohlrabi?

 

Are You asking about Kohl or Rabbis ?

 

Maybe I'm the only one here who was forced to eat this in the summer time at Grandma's house. From her garden. I've never tried it as an adult, my taste buds might have changed.
https://search.brave.com/images?q=kohlrabi the vegetable&spellcheck=0

 

Some of the Vegans I worked with loved the stuff-I've never had Kolrabi or Lutefish or Haggis.How about a Dagwood Sandwich out of those 3 goodies ? By the way speakin' food-Happy Pie (Pi) day everybody ! (Thanks Bakers).