45 ~ Kamome Inari Jinja

 

Japanese Name:  鴎稲荷神社
English Reading: Kamome Inari Jinja
English Translation: Seagull Inari Shrine
Size: Medium
Deity: Inari
Fox Count: 2
First Visit: 1-Apr-2018
Location: Tokyo-Ota
Address: 6 Chome-20-10 Haneda, Ōta-ku, Tōkyō-to 144-0043

A medium-sized fox shrine with a great grey stone Torii right at the side of the road, and a smaller red Torii in front of the actual shrine building. The pair of foxes is sitting right behind the second Torii, the left one holding a scroll, and the right one holding a Hoshi-no-Tama. By the way, the two characters on the sockets of the foxes also form a pair that can be found in many other shrines too. You need to make them right to left (reflecting the traditional reading direction in Japan: top to bottom and then right to left) to form 奉納 (Hounou), which means "Dedication" or "Offering".