Inari (稲荷大神)
The deity of rice and of prosperity in trade, enshrined at more shrines in Japan than any other.
Inari Ōkami, whose formal name is Uganomitama, is the deity of rice and of the harvest, and by extension of prosperity in business. Inari shrines outnumber those of any other deity in Japan, from the head shrine at Fushimi in Kyoto down to small halls inside company grounds, and the fox is Inari's messenger rather than the deity itself. Koami Shrine in Nihonbashi records how one such shrine began: during an epidemic in 1466 an old fisherman arrived carrying ears of rice his net had brought up, and a dream instructed that he be revered as Inari Ōkami.
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ShrineFushimi Inari Taisha
- Money & Prosperity
The head shrine of the thirty thousand Inari shrines across Japan, whose deity is venerated for harvests and the prosperity of trade.
ShrineNezu Shrine
- Career & Work
- Exams & Study
- Family & Home
A Bunkyo shrine whose entire 1706 complex survives intact as an Important Cultural Property, rare in Tokyo, with an azalea hill and a tunnel of small red torii (鳥居).
ShrineKoami Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A small Nihonbashi shrine known as a deity of strong luck and warding off misfortune, with a well where visitors wash money and the only pre-war wooden shrine building left in the district.
ShrineTeine Jinja
Began when 250 households, unable to reach Sapporo Jinja in winter or at harvest, petitioned for a place to worship it from a distance — and later became a shrine itself.
ShrineShinagawa Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A shrine above Kita-Shinagawa founded in 1187 by Minamoto no Yoritomo, enshrining three deities added across three centuries, one for trade and one for warding.
ShrineToyohira Jinja
Founded when a district settled largely by migrants from Tōhoku enshrined the guardian deity of the home they had left, Kamitsukeno no Tamichi.
ShrineFukuzumi Itsukushima Jinja
Founded in 1884 by migrants from Hiroshima, and later given divided spirits from Itsukushima in Hiroshima, Fushimi Inari in Sapporo, and Kitano Tenmangu.
ShrineNamiyoke Shrine
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A Tsukiji shrine whose name means wave-averting, founded in 1659 after an Inari image found floating in the sea was credited with calming the water enough to finish the reclamation.
ShrineAshiribetsu Jinja
Begins in 1874 when Nagaoka Shigeharu made a small shrine in a corner of the land he had cleared and worshipped there morning and evening.
ShrineKarasumori Shrine
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
- Skill & Mastery
A Shimbashi shrine down an alley, founded in 940 by the general who defeated Taira no Masakado, and one of the few to enshrine the deity of the performing arts.
ShrineFukutoku Shrine
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A small Nihonbashi shrine whose name means good fortune, which ran shogunate-licensed lotteries in the Edo period and still performs a prayer for winning one.
ShrineReppupu Jinja
Named after its village, and in 1893 given three divided deities from Miyoshi Jinja in Sapporo.
ShrineSapporo Fushimi Inari Jinja
- Career & Work
- Money & Prosperity
Begins in 1884 with a divided spirit brought from Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, and holds its deity to be the progenitor of food, clothing and shelter, and guardian of harvests, industry and trade.
ShrineTsukisamu Jinja
Permitted to be founded as Nishiyama Jinja, it reached its present site through one renaming and two relocations, each recorded with the date of petition and permit.
ShrineSanrizuka Jinja
A shrine whose annual festival has been held every year since 15 August 1897.
ShrineHassamu Jinja
Begins in 1856 when Yamaoka Seijirō and sixteen others, sent under shogunal orders to develop Ezo, settled here and founded an Inari shrine.
ShrineToyohata Jinja
Begins with a squared timber, the god’s name cut into it, set upright and worshipped at.
ShrineTamatsukuri Inari Jinja
Transmitted as founded in 12 BC, revered through the Toyotomi and Tokugawa ages as the guardian deity of Osaka Castle, and the origin of the place-name Tamatsukuri.