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What is an Inari Fox?

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What is an Inari Fox?
An Inari fox is the animal form of Inari, a sacred Japanese deity associated with rice, tea, and sake. Shrines across Japan are guarded by stone statues of the fox, which also appears in other forms of Japanese art like woodblock prints and anime.
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Pair Japanese Carved and Lacquered Inari Foxes, Showa Era, Dated 1951, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A delightful and mischievous pair of Japanese carved and lacquered wood Inari foxes, kitsune, dated
Category

Vintage 1950s Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings

Materials

Elm

Pair Japanese Carved and Lacquered Inari Foxes, Showa Era, Dated 1951, Japan

Pair Japanese Carved and Lacquered Inari Foxes, Showa Era, Dated 1951, Japan

$3,800
Japanese Shugendo Crow Tengu and Inari Fox Hand-painting 20th century
Located in Chiba, JP
on the Inari fox of divine messenger, expressing the final figure of ultimate monk having the “force
Category

20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Japanese Shugendo Crow Tengu and Inari Fox Hand-painting 20th century

Japanese Shugendo Crow Tengu and Inari Fox Hand-painting 20th century

$200
Japanese antique Silk tapestry with 5 foxes in bamboo forest, mid 1700s
Located in MIlano, IT
Japanese antique Silk tapestry with 5 foxes in bamboo forest, mid 1700s Rectangular silk tapestry
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Decorative Art

Materials

Silk, Wood

Japanese antique Silk tapestry with 5 foxes in bamboo forest, mid 1700s

Japanese antique Silk tapestry with 5 foxes in bamboo forest, mid 1700s

$3,992
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Ikkesai Yoshiiku - Yaji and Kita at Oji Fox Shrine
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description Ikkesai Yoshiiku Yaji and Kita at Oji Fox Shrine, from the Series “Tokyo Nichnichi
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Prints

Materials

Paper

Antique Japanese Woodblock - Ikkesai Yoshiiku - Yaji and Kita at Oji Fox Shrine

Antique Japanese Woodblock - Ikkesai Yoshiiku - Yaji and Kita at Oji Fox Shrine

$1,918 Sale Price
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Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Snow Fox
By Miyuki Takanashi
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera on canvas & signed on bottom right Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Tempera

Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Snow Fox

Miyuki Takanashi
Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Snow Fox, 2019

$1,000
Extremely Rare Japanese Karakuri Ningyo Holding a Fox Mask, Edo Period, Ca. 1840
Located in New York, NY
Extremely Rare Japanese Karakuri Ningyo Holding a Fox Mask, Edo Period, Ca. 1840 DIMENSIONS 20
Category

Antique 1840s Japanese Japonisme Sculptures and Carvings

Materials

Wood

Extremely Rare Japanese Karakuri Ningyo Holding a Fox Mask, Edo Period, Ca. 1840

Extremely Rare Japanese Karakuri Ningyo Holding a Fox Mask, Edo Period, Ca. 1840

$36,000
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