351 ~ Jinkurou Inari (Komainu & Foxes)

 

Japanese Name: 甚九郎稲荷
Romanized Reading: Jinkurou Inari
English Translation: Great Nine Sons Inari
Size: Medium
Deity: Inari
Fox Count: 3
First Visit: 20-Dec-2018
Location: Okayama
Address: 9-41 Tenjincho, Kita Ward, Okayama, 700-0814
Coordinates: 34.66662,133.92992

This fox shrine is unusual in that it features both Komainu and foxes as its guardians. Normally, it's either one or the other. But as it is, a pair of Komainu sit watch at the outside gates, then there's one lone, life sized stone fox to the right of the approach to the shrine, and then another two just outside the shrine building.