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Daytime version.
Fox Festival--
the non-divine foxes
crying
初午に無官の狐鳴にけり
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1819.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.
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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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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.
Irogu hastily followed.
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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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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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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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.
Fushimi inari shrine,today.