Romanized Reading: Tabigitsune Inari Jinja
English Translation: Travelling Fox Inari Shrine
Size: Tiny
Deity: Inari
Fox Count: 11
First Visit: 29-Mar-2019
Location: Munich, Germany
Address: Hitlstr. 3, 80997 Munich
Coordinates: 48.18081,11.48088
This includes:
- ten tiny porcelain foxes
- one even tinier plastic fox I got out of a capsule machine
- two equally tiny plastic shrines out of the same capsule machine
- one tiny porcelain Tanuki to keep the foxes company
- three Ofuda from Anamori Inari and Toyokawa Inari respectively (two wooden, one paper)
- a paper scroll depicting Inari riding a fox down from the heavens
- a little diorama shrine
- and two paper lamps from Fushimi Inari, adorned with foxes.
The two dolls flanking the shrine are souvenirs that my grandmother brought with her from Japan a long time ago. As far as I know, she was also the only other member of my family to ever have visited Japan.
With this, I'll always have a little connection to the land I travelled for a year and its many fox shrines. Its name reflects that. As for its reading, I was gonna go for "Ryoko", but every Japanese who saw the Kanji 旅狐 on my business card read it as "Tabigitsune", so I'll go with that instead.
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