Happy Fortune Inari, 25th Sept 2010

Inari, sounding similar to “rice” in Japanese, is the deity for the harvest. 
The foxes are the guardian of this shrine. It is said that fox will exterminate the mice to protect harvest from being damaged by mice. For this reason, most Inari shrine put the statue of fox as the guardian of deity.
Nowadays, there are 20,000 Inari shrine all over Japan.

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