Small Shinto Santuary dedicated to the Uga-no-Mitama divinity
Small Shinto Santuary dedicated to the Uga-no-Mitama divinity meaning "the spirit of the rice in storehouses" which is associated with food and agriculture and which is often represented in the form of the fox Inari the divinity of rice. On the red flags called nobori which border the path of the sanctuary are inscribed Shozoku Inari Shrine, the date of February 2018 and the name of the donors in the white rectangle. Located in the city of Oji in the district of Kita north of Tokyo, this place once owned a tree Enoki Celtis sinensis Micocoulier which stood in the middle of the rice fields. On New Year's Eve, foxes from all over the region gathered here and there were signs of will-o'-the-wisps, which made the superstitious peasants count their numbers and used that to predict a good or bad harvest for next year. At the top of the steps is a box to collect the donators' coins where the word offering "Hounou" is inscribed with a stylized symbol of rice shoots and a fox head at its center. This scene is represented in the series of prints "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" by Utagawa Hiroshige.
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