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The color red has come to be identified with Inari because of the prevalence of its use among Inari shrines and their torii. [10] 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 ...
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]
Inari Ōkami (Japanese: 稲荷大神), also called Ō-Inari (大稲荷), is the Japanese kami of foxes, fertility, rice, tea, sake, agriculture and industry, and general prosperity and worldly success, [1] and is one of the principal kami of Shinto. The name Inari can be literally translated into "rice-bearer". [2]
A pair of foxes at an Inari shrine. A variant of the komainu theme is the fox, acting as guardian of shrines dedicated to the Inari deity. [7] There are about 30 thousand Inari shrines in Japan, and the entrance of each is guarded by a pair of fox statues. [19]
Dedicated to Inari, the kami whose messengers are foxes, it is the third largest of its kind in Japan. It was constructed in 1688 as the family shrine of the Nabeshima clan who ruled what would become the Saga area (called Hizen at that time) during the Edo period.
Whenever Mount Chokai (right) erupted, the rank of Omonoimi no Kami the god of Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine (left) was raised Shinkai (神階, "divine rank") is a system of ranking kami in Shinto . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Higher rank meant more lands were given to the shrine and it became wealthier and more powerful.
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