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The Fox and the JewelKaren A. Smyers

Shinto and Japanese Religion

The Fox and the Jewel

Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship

by Karen A. Smyers

An ethnography of Inari worship at Fushimi Inari and Buddhist Inari centres. Smyers explores the fox and the jewel as symbols and shows how worshippers create highly personal understandings of the deity within a shared tradition.

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