Inari
Miketsu-No-Kami
Inari (Miketsu-No-Kami)
was a Japanese Shinto kami goddess of rice, agriculture, and foodstuffs. A
gifted shamanic healer, she often appeared in the guises such as a bearded man
riding a white fox. She was revered as Miketsu-No-Kami at the
imperial palace.
Most often Inari was
depicted in pictures as a woman with long flowing hair with sheaves of rice. She
often also rode a white fox.
Shinto Fox Goddess Inari Appears before a Man
Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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The animal totem of Inari is the fox, an prolific animal
endowed according to Japanese traditions with supernatural powers.
There were numerous statues of foxes at Inari
shrines, which were painted bright red. They also had rows of wooden portal
tunnels leading to the shrine.
Inari was also associated
with an unique pear shaped implement encircled by small flames called a
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Public Domain Image Shinto Fox Goddess Inari Appears before a Man Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A_man_confronted_with_an_apparition
_of_the_Fox_goddess.jpg]. Accessed January 19, 2007.
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