Thursday, 6 August 2015

Inari: Sweat and Torii

Today we went to Inari Shrine. It is basically an entire mountain covered in shrines and Torii gates.

 This is the front entrance. The orange object is a Torii gate.

There are a lot of them throughout.
Of various sizes.
This seems to be a chart of sizes and prices.
There are a lot of Torii gates there, and a lot of stairs.
 There were smaller ones available for sale that you could write on.
An example a Shrine. Inari features mostly fox statues (though several are Foo Dogs, and one pair is of horses). Even on these, the Torii are featured prominently.

We made it to the top. It was very hot, and climbing a mountain makes for a very sweaty journey.
The view was nice; it was a lot less hazy than the last time we came.

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