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>>18494574
It's a process of elimination. Tales about fox spirits are common, but nine-tailed foxes are actually pretty hard to find in folklore. Kuzunoha has already transcended youkai-dom into a god, which Ran isn't, and Da Ji is both Chinese and died about 3000 years before either Yukari or Ran were first mentioned, not to mention having been sentenced to hell by a creator god on par if not stronger than Gensokyo's Dragon: Nuwa. Although, the painter Hokusai remixed together Daji, the Indian rakhasa Kalmashapada, and Tamamo-no-Mae into one spirit that hopped between bodies until finally being put down in her Japanese incarnation.

Most importantly, nine-tailed foxes don't go down easy in Japanese folklore, and only Tamamo-no-Mae, to my knowledge, got in a position (hunted down and arrow-ed) where somebody like Yukari, who is strong but not enough to enslave gods, could have feasibly press-ganged or pic-related a nine-tailed fox.

>>18494574

It's mostly a process of elimination. Kuzunoha is a shrine kami and thus no longer in the youkai category, which Ran is. Da Ji is actually the same (evil) fox spirit as Tamamo according to folklore, as Japanese folklore have a tendency to write fan-sequels to Chinese original ones, who fled the body of the concubine to Japan.

Also, while tales of random kitsune like the Marisa impersonator are fairly common, nine-tailed ones are surprisingly hard to find, and Tamamo-no-Mae's ending (being hunted down and killed) is the only one about a nine-tails I could find that would enable Yukari, who is powerful but has limits, to persuade/press-gang one into servitude or perform pic-related.