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Sat Jan 3, 2015, 08:07 PM Jan 2015

Travel The Fiery Red-Orange Halls Of Fushimi Inari-Taisha, Shrine Dedicated To God Of Rice



By Antonia Blumberg
Posted: 01/03/2015 8:30 am EST
Updated: 01/03/2015 8:59 am EST

When January rolls around, thousands of believers travel to the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto, Japan to pray for good fortune in the New Year.

Dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice, the shrine sits at the bottom of a mountain by the same name in southwestern Kyoto. The full complex consists of five shrines, the first of which was built in the 8th century, with a pathway winding up the mountain lined with hundreds of red torii, or gates.

Dozens of stone foxes also adorn the shrine, invoking the messenger of Inari and often depicted with a key to the figurative rice granary in its mouth.

Take a virtual walk down the fiery red-orange gates of the shrine:







http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/03/fushimi-inari-taisha-shrine_n_6407400.html?cps=gravity_2677_5750269096372689844

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushimi_Inari-taisha
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Travel The Fiery Red-Orange Halls Of Fushimi Inari-Taisha, Shrine Dedicated To God Of Rice (Original Post) rug Jan 2015 OP
That is gorgeous! okasha Jan 2015 #1
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