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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]
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 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 main gate to Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto, one of the oldest shrines in Japan. Public spaces in which the kami are worshipped are often known under the generic term jinja (" kami-place"); [187] this term applies to the location rather than to a specific building. [188]
Taisha is a term used to refer to a rank of Shinto shrines. A taisha ( 大社 ) (the characters are also read ōyashiro ) is literally a "great shrine" [ 1 ] that was classified as such under the old system of shrine ranking, the shakaku ( 社格 ) , abolished in 1946.
Senbon torii leading to the Fushimi Inari-taisha. Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of the largest shrine network in Japan, which has more than 32,000 members, about a third of the total. Inari Okami worship started here in the 8th century and has continued ever since, expanding to the rest of the country.