Jozan Inari Shrine was one of Lafcadio Hearn’s favourite places in Matsue. He would pass by the shrine every day on his way to the school where he was teaching, very often stopped to admire the thousands of kitsune statues that used to surround the shrine building.
At the behest of the ruling clan of Matsue, the shrine became a place of both Shinto and Buddhist worship, however it reverted back to its original Shintoism with belief in the god Ukanomitama.
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