Tobiki Inari Shrine

Icho Kamiki It is said to be over 1,000 years old, and although it was damaged by the fire of war (March 9, Showa 20), it is flourishing vigorously as you can see. According to the legend of the elders, once upon a time during a rainstorm, a branch of a strawberry tree flew out of nowhere and stuck in this place. And before I knew it, it towered over the pavilion, so it is said that the people of the time thought that this was an anomaly and enshrined the Inari Shrine for the first time. The name of Tobiki Inari also happened from this. As for the time when it was enshrined, we do not know the details because old books have been lost in the old house and Entsuji Temple due to repeated floods and fires in this area, but according to the old Bakushaji temple magistrate's book, it is the second year of Onin (1468 AD), but it is probably before that. Inari-san and Totsune There are stone foxes in the Inari Shrine, and there are many foxes in the shrine, so people tend to think that the fox is Mr. Inari. This is due to the fact that many foxes lived in the mountains within the precincts of Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, where the Inari Shrine was first enshrined, gave rise to the belief that the fox was the messenger of Mr. Inari. It is from this belief that it has come to be placed in front of the shrine.