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Friday, June 18, 2010

Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto





Inari is the Shinto god of rice and this is the largest shrine to Inari in Japan.  It was founded in 711 and today a path lined by over 10,000 torii gates winds it way up Mt. Inari.












Who remembers Christo's "The Gates" installation in Central Park?

 
You can read a bit more about torii gates in this earlier post.