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Amaterasu has reunited and reestablished her partnership with her brother/husband god Susanowa and regularly spends some time with him at his Sacred Site at Keino Matsubara, Awajishima.. Benten (Benten San, Benzai Ten, Benzai Tennyo) was a beautiful Japanese goddess of the arts, good fortune, knowledge, language, water, wealth, and wisdom. One of the Shichi Fujukin, "Seven Japanese Shinto Happiness Beings", Enoshima Island rose from the waters to receive the footsteps of Benten. There are many sanctuaries dedicated to Benten like the popular Zeniarai Benten Shrine in western Kamakura. She was revered in both Japanese Shinto and Buddhist traditional practices. Benten was also the protectress of children, dancers, geishas, and musicians. Benten is often depicted holding a "Biwa" instrument in her hand.
Daikokuten (Daikoku) was a Japanese Shinto god of luck, happiness, wealth,
agriculture, crops, farming, rice paddies, harvests, and kitchens. As
Ta-No-Kami, he was an agricultural, farming, and rice paddies god in western
Japan.
Often portrayed as a wealthy rotund figure seated on two bales of rice with a sack of jewels over his shoulder, he also held a hammer in his right hand. Frequently a mouse was also depicted nibbling at one of the bales of rice. According to Japanese traditions, whenever Daikokuten shakes his hammer a large amount of money falls out of it. Small gold talismans with representations of Daikokuten on them are carried to ensure prosperity, abundance, and wealth. Inari was a Japanese Shinto kami goddess of rice, agriculture, and foodstuffs. A gifted shamanic healer, she often appears in the guises such as a bearded man riding a white fox. She was revered as Miketsu-No-Kami revered 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. Her animal totem 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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