Inari
the rice-god, keeper of the vermilion gates
earthInari feeds the harvest and rides upon white foxes, wearing a thousand faces of man, woman, and beast; to dream of Inari is to be led by a shape you cannot name toward the abundance you have quietly earned.
Fragments
Farmers leave fried tofu at the shrine, and on the coldest nights they swear a white tail flickers between the pillars, counting their gifts.
Through thousands of red gates the path climbs the mountain, and at every turning a stone fox waits with a key held gently in its jaws.
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