419 ~ Sakae Ookami

 

Japanese Name: 盛大神
Romanized Reading: Sakae Ookami
English Translation: Prosperous Great Deity
Size: Tiny side shrine of Kobogataki within Fushimi Inari Taisha
Deity: ?
Fox Count: 2
First Visit: 25-Dec-2018
Location: Kyoto-Fushimi
Address: 27 Fukakusa Sasayamachō, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, 612-0811
Coordinates: 34.9654,135.7809

The 57th vulpine side shrine of Fushimi Inari Taisha, the 50th within the Kobogataki supercluster, and the fourth in the latter's southern area. As usual, this one features a pair of life-sized stone foxes, with the left one holding a scroll, and the right one holding an orb.

This one is one of the rare short-name shrines with only three characters in its name. Four is the norm, with most shrines going by ？？神社 or ？？大神, followed by five for ？？大明神, and then longer names. Three characters are rare, but sometimes happen in the form of ？？社, or more rarely ？神社 or - like here - ？大神. Two-character shrine names are even shorter, and take forms like  ？神. And that's the lower limit.