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An Inari shrine (稲荷神社, Inari jinja) is a type of Japanese shrine used to worship the kami Inari.Inari is a popular deity associated with foxes, rice, household wellbeing, business prosperity, and general prosperity.
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[1] Some shrines are the "first shrines" called ichinomiya that have the highest rank in their respective provinces of Japan. The Ise Grand Shrine stood at the top of all shrines and thus was outside the classification. [2] [3] All listed shrines on this page with the exception of Ise Grand Shrine are Beppyo shrines.
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 .
[1] The first buildings at shrines were likely just huts built to house some yorishiro. [1] A trace of this origin can be found in the term hokura (神庫), literally meaning "deity storehouse", which evolved into hokora (also written with the characters 神庫), one of the earliest words for a shrine. [1]
There are eleven dreams identified in the Sarashina Diary. [1] Some of the dreams are: Memorizing the Lotus Sutra; The construction of ornamental stream at the Hexagonal Hall, and an order to worship Amaterasu; Monk's divine dream of a mirror offered by Lady Sarashina's mother; A good omen bestowed by the Inari Shrine
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]