Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...
Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan.
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Fushimi dolls became popular as souvenirs in areas around Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine in the Edo Period (1603-1867). To make a Fushimi doll, clay is pressed into the clay mold before it is dried ...
The "shimenawa" at Fushimi Inari is distinctive in that it has around 50 sheaves of rice straw hanging from it. 18:11 This enormous "shimenawa" is made in Miyama, which lies north of the city.