495 ~ Gyokuki​ Ookami Cluster

 

Japanese Name: 玉姫大神
Romanized Reading: Gyokuki Ookami
English Translation: Jewel Princess Great Deity
Cluster Size: Tiny
Deity: ?
First Visit: 25-Dec-2018
Location: Fushimi Inari, Fukakusa Kaidoguchicho
Address: Fukakusa Kaidoguchicho, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, 612-0805, Japan
Coordinates: 34.9701,135.7776

We are now out of the Torii Road, in a small valley by the name of Fukakusa Kaidoguchicho (深草開土口町 "Deep Weeds Open Soil Entrance Town"). Here, the concept of individual fox shrine clusters becomes kinda funky, since there's clusters right next to one another.

Imagine it like that: There's a tiny cluster, a small shrine with several tiny shrines crammed into its grounds. And right next to it, there's the next such cluster. and it goes on like that all the way down the valley. One way to go about it would be to consider the entire valley one huge cluster, or to name the segments between the rest houses individual clusters. For simplicity's sake, however, I am simply going to refer to each of these "main" shrines that serve as a hub for tiny fox shrines as a cluster.

Anyway, this is the first of them, and there's many more to come. We're clearly not out of fox territory yet.