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Fushimi Inari-taisha (Japanese: 伏見稲荷大社) is the head shrine of the kami Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.The shrine sits at the base of a mountain, also named Inari, which is 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) and take approximately 2 hours to walk up. [1]
Fushimi Inari Taisha's honden. While superficially completely different, the kasuga-zukuri actually shares an ancestry with the most popular style in Japan, the nagare-zukuri. [1] The two for example share pillars set over a double-cross-shaped foundation and a roof which extends over the main entrance, covering a veranda.
The main Inari shrine is the Fushimi Inari-taisha in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, where the path to the shrine is marked by around a thousand torii. [ 8 ] Inari shrines typically possess guardian figures in the form of foxes or kitsune .
The daiwa or Inari torii (大輪鳥居・稲荷鳥居) (see illustration above) is a myōjin torii with two rings called daiwa at the top of the two pillars. The name "Inari torii" comes from the fact that vermilion daiwa torii tend to be common at Inari shrines, but even at the famous Fushimi Inari Shrine not all torii are in this style. This ...
The torii is a gate which marks the entrance to a sacred area, usually but not necessarily a shrine. [12] A shrine may have any number of torii (Fushimi Inari Taisha has thousands) made of wood, stone, metal, concrete or any other material. They can be found in different places within a shrine's precincts to signify an increased level of holiness.
Fushimi Inari-taisha [5] Fushimi-ku, Kyoto: Myojin Taisha one of the Twenty-Two Shrines, Upper Seven; Inari Ōkami, Ukanomitama: Tatsuta Taisha [5] Sangō, Nara: Myojin Taisha, Chokusaisha: one of the Twenty-Two Shrines, Middle Seven, Shinatsuhiko: Ōmiwa Shrine [5] Sakurai, Nara: Myojin Taisha
The sandō at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. A sandō (参道, visiting path) in Japanese architecture is the road approaching either a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist temple. [1] Its point of origin is usually straddled in the first case by a Shinto torii, in the second by a Buddhist sanmon, gates which mark the beginning of the shrine's or temple territory.
(pictured: Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto) The assimilation of Dakiniten and Inari (or rather, Ukanomitama) can also be observed in the origin story of the Dakiniten Hall at Shinnyo-dō in Kyoto. The story relates that a monk who was a worshiper of Dakiniten had just finished reciting the 600-fascicle Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra when a white ...