KITSUNE (FOX)

KITSUNE（FOX)

狐

Inari Ōkami is the Japanese kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry and worldly success and one of the principal kami of Shinto. Represented as male, female, or androgynous, Inari is sometimes seen as a collective of three or five individual kami. Inari appears to have been worshipped since the founding of a shrine at Inari Mountain in 711 AD, although some scholars believe that worship started in the late 5th century.

Worship of Inari spread across Japan in the Edo period, and by the 16th century Inari had become the patron of blacksmiths and the protector of warriors. Inari is a popular figure in both Shinto and Buddhist beliefs in Japan. More than one-third (32,000) of the Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to Inari. Modern corporations, such as cosmetic company Shiseido, continue to revere Inari as a patron kami, with shrines atop their corporate headquarters.

Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as his/her messengers.

Inari appears to a warrior. 

This portrayal of Inari shows the influence of Dakiniten concepts from Buddhism.

Rat to eat cereal

Fox eats rat.

Fox is the guardian angel of grain


(one of story)






GOMINEKO PRESS


JAPANESE MYTHICAL CREATURES


Gomineko Press is stoked to finally debut Japanese Mythical Creatures. 
Illustrations of Kappa, Kirin, Baku, Nue, Kitsune and Tsuchigumo 
from over 120 different artists world wide!!




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Size: 8” x 11.5”
Pages: 228
Published: 2012
Price: $48
Binding:Softcover 

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