Yep! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yoshitoshi_Rainy_Day_Tanuki.jpg) Big enough that they can throw 'em over their shoulders, beat on them like drums, or even stretch them out even bigger (http://www.obakemono.com/obake/tanuki/) to serve as boats or blankets. They're also shapeshifters in folklore, though, so a pretty princess doesn't seem too too dissonant -- although Zhang Ziyi doesn't seem like a classic example of the rounded facial features that are called tanuki-gao...