Many torii close together at the Fushimi Inari Shinto in Kyoto
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社 ) is a large Shinto shrine in Fushimi Kyoto , Japan .[ 1]
It is the head shrine of Inari, the rice god.[ 2] There are Inari shrines in many parts of Japan.[ 3] There may be more than 32,000 sub-shrines or bunsha (分社 ) .[ 4]
↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric . (2005). "Fushimi Inari Taisha" in Japan Encyclopedia , p. 224.
↑ Breen, John and Mark Teeuwen . (2011). A New History of Shinto, p. 213 .
↑ Motegi, Sadazumi. (2010). "Shamei Bunpu (Shrine Names and Distributions)," Archived 2019-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of Shinto ; retrieved 2012-5-22.
↑ "Nationwide numbers of Emanation Branches (bunsha ) of Famous Shrine," Archived 2012-05-31 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of Shinto ; retrieved 2012-5-22.