Fushimi Inari Shrine

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A Fushimi Inari Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto dedicated to Shinto kami/deity "Inari" (deity of rice and prosperity).



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2024

  • (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushimi_Inari-taisha Retrieved:2024-7-7.
    • Fushimi Inari-taisha 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 above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span and take approximately 2 hours to walk up. It is unclear whether the mountain's name, Inariyama, or the shrine's name came first.[1]

      Inari was originally and remains primarily the kami of rice and agriculture, but merchants also worship Inari as the patron of business. [2] Each of Fushimi Inari-taisha's roughly 10,000 torii were donated by a Japanese business, and approximately 800 of these are set in a row to form the Senbon Torii, creating the impression of a tunnel. The shrine is said to have ten thousand such gates in total that designate the entrance to the holy domain of kami and protect it against wicked forces.[1] Owing to the popularity of Inari's division and re-enshrinement, this shrine is said to have as many as 32,000 sub-shrines (分社 bunsha) throughout Japan.

  1. 1.0 1.1 Keller (2022): 2.
  2. Keller (2022): 1.