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🏮🦊FOXLIGHT🦊🏮
Typically on the first Sunday (or national holiday) after 'doyō ushi-no-hi' (土用丑の日 'midsummer day of the ox'), Fushimi Inari (伏見稲荷大社) celebrates its biggest festival. Over 8000 lanterns are illuminated on the eve of 'Motomiya-sai' (本宮祭).
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🕊️THE FOUNDING OF FUSHIMI INARI🌾
Hata-no-Irogu (秦伊呂具) had amassed such wealth that he could afford to use large (dried) cakes of pounded rice as targets for his archery practice.
One day the rice cake target transformed into a large white bird and flew off.
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✨THE RICE GOD COMETH🌾
Today is the 'first day of the horse' (it falls some time around the start of February each year).
Hatsuuma (初午) celebrates the arrival of Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神), god of rice, prosperity, agriculture and industry, fertility, saké and rice, on Mt Inari in 711.
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Autumn season in Japan Kyoto and Osaka
秋🍂の伏見稲荷➕大阪梅田エリア
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As you leave the main shrine the strings of red lanterns come to an end, and you pass through the start of the 'Senbon Torii' (千本鳥居 'The Thousand Torii') in mostly darkness.
What feels otherworldly during the day is overwhelmingly mysterious at night.
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In 1194 Emperor Go-Toba (後鳥羽天皇) decreed that Fushimi Inari had the right to 'divide' and re-enshrine the spirit of Inari Ōkami, allowing for new shrines to be created and a hierarchy established.
The god, held in a sacred object, is moved to a new home via paulownia box.
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At its heart Motomiya-sai (本宮祭) celebrates the spread of the Inari faith.
Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神), god of agriculture, industry, prosperity, worldly success, rice, fertility, tea, saké and foxes, is said to have been enshrined in over 100,000 'shrines' across Japan & the world.
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Locals would joke that in the pouring rain it was possible to stay dry on the climb up the mountain as the gates were so numerous and so densely packed together!
It may seem strange that such a relatively small shrine rivaled the famed Fushimi Inari for gates, but it should be remembered that gates as votive offerings only appeared in significant numbers at Fushimi after 1804 (at which time Takenaka-jinja was already in decline).
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On the 1st Day of the Horse in the 2nd Month of 711 Irogu erected a shrine to worship the miraculous rice plant. It was likely known as 'Inenari Shrine'.
In some stories Irogu fails to act immediately, only prompted to do so when crops begin to fail across the Hata clan's lands.
Foxes, perhaps because they were seen to hunt pests that preyed on the grain and rice kept in storehouses, became familiars to the enshrined god.
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🕊️THE FOUNDING OF FUSHIMI INARI🌾
Hata-no-Irogu (秦伊呂具) had amassed such wealth that he could afford to use large cakes of pounded rice as targets for his archery practice.
One day the rice cake transformed into a large white bird and flew off. Irogu hastily followed.#Japan #Kyoto #FushimiInariTaisha #伏見稲荷大社 #伏見 #伏見稲荷 #Inari #Fushimi