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What is an Inari Fox?
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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 Showa year twenty six, corresponding to 1951, Japan.
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Elm
Japanese Shugendo Crow Tengu and Inari Fox Hand-painting 20th century
Located in Chiba, JP
Showa period, 20th century, Japan. 46 x 128 cm (18.11 x 50.39in).
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
B113 Old Japanese Art, Silver Paper, folding Screen, Ink painting Fox's Wedding
Located in Niiza, JP
The ink painting depicts a fox wedding.
This is a Japanese folktale referring to a "sun shower" (rain falling while the weather is sunny) and a strange phenomenon where mysterious li...
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
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
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 Shimbun”
Creator
Ikkesai Yoshiiku
Japanese1833–1904
Date
1874
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Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Prints
Materials
Paper
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 lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of Edu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera
