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Published: 2009-06-04 15:24:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 135; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 3
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Everybody has this shot. I wanted one too. Somehow we'll all deal.Fushimi Inari Taisha, the tunnels of twenty million torii that cover the mountain with all the fox statues you can shake a stick at. You can't tell, but it IS very sunny.
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It's the Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine in Kyoto. It's dedicated to the god/dess of rice, who is very important in the Shinto religion. Everything in Japan centers on rice, so if there's no rice due to crop issues then there's a serious famine and a lot of people die. For this reason, she gets an entire mountain covered in shrines and fox-guardian statues. (Foxes eat the mice in the granary that could steal the food or ruin it so they're considered her companions.)
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