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***Please please please understand this is a first post on research I am doing about the deity known as Inari. If you have other information, please let me know so I can decide if I need to edit/update stuff within my notes!***
Inari, Japanese deity, maybe a series of deities? The Kami of Rice, Prosperity, Sake, Love, Fertility, Kinship, Craftsmanship, Agriculture, Tea, Foxes, & Ghosts.
Patron deity of actors, sex workers, blacksmiths, warriors, fishermen, & farmers.
Color association of blood red, white, cream.
Depicted as an old man carrying rice accompanied by a white fox, a beautiful young woman, sometimes with the tail of a red fox, an androgynous bodhisattva, or a kitsune.
Shrines to Inari typically have Torii gates & (minimum a pair of) statues of foxes wearing red bibs. (Approximately 1/3 of Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to Inari!)
Symbolic items are foxes (surprise!), a wish-fulfilling jewel, a key, a fox cub, a scroll, & a sheaf of rice.
Festival day is the 6th day of the 2nd month (I found this written as the first horse day of the 2nd lunar month, so...February 6th). Inari is also celebrated during Oban. However, 5 days before the full moon in November, prayers & a festival go for a week to honor Inari & ask for protection.
Traditional offerings are rice, fruit, sake, Inari-zushi (fried tofu sushi with fox ears!), & fox related items.
When it rains while the sun is shining, in Japan it is referred to as “Kitsune no Yomeiri” (狐の嫁入), or the marriage of the kitsune.
During WWII, at the main Inari shrine in Kyoto, devotees held rituals similar to seances to seek aid from Inari.
Some traditions show asking Inari for cures & healing of basic ailments.
Kitsune (& subsequently Inari) ward off demonic presence.
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So my personal experience with Inari so far...
I started seeing foxes in dreams, & had a spirit guide come through to me with my energy healer training that was a white kitsune. I’ve had an entity strongly suggest I get the kitsune oracle deck, so I’ve been playing with that. The more I work with it, the more I think I’m supposed to be honoring Inari, & potentially working with them specifically. I am choosing to identify the deity of Inari as genderfluid, & use they/them pronouns, but if I find that Inari prefers something else, I’ll gladly change that.