Inari God - Inarigami

Japanese: 稲荷神 - いなりがみ

However, among the mountain stonemasons who quarry stone, known as choba, there is a custom of worshiping the mountain gods, and on November 7th they offer botamochi and sacred sake to the choba and take a day off work. The most prominent gods worshipped by those in the metallurgical, casting, and iron-forging industries, that is, tatarashi (a metalworker), imoji (a metalworker), and blacksmithing industries, are Kojin, Inari, and Kanayagogami. Kojin is generally worshipped as the god of the hearth and the god of fire, as seen in the names Kamadojin and Sanbokojin, and in some cases is worshipped as a different kind of Kojin, the god of the earth, the god of the land, or the god of the mountains. However, the worship of Kojin by those in professions that use fire, such as blacksmiths, comes from the nature of Kojin worshipped as the god of fire, and this was also involved in the involvement of mountain ascetics and onmyoji (a type of priest).

From [Dakinitsun]

…Originally, Dakiniten had no connection to foxes, but the Takinitari-kyo, which describes Dakiniten as a fox spirit, was forged, and in early modern Dakiniten mandalas, she came to be depicted as a heavenly maiden riding a fox. In the process of her transformation into a god of good fortune, Dakiniten came to be identified with Ugajin and Benzaiten, who are also gods of good fortune, and even to be said to be the same as the god Inari. Toyokawa Inari (Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture), which enshrines Dakiniten, is famous. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Inari God" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…だが丁場（ちようば）と呼ばれる石切場で石材採掘をする山石屋のあいだでは山の神をまつる風習があり，11月7日に丁場にぼた餅，神酒を供えてまつり一日仕事を休む。　冶金，鋳金，鍛鉄の業，すなわち鑪師（たたらし）や鋳物師（いもじ），鍛冶屋の神としてその信仰のもっともいちじるしいのは荒神，稲荷神，金屋子神（かなやごがみ）である。荒神は竈荒神，三宝荒神の名があるように一般には竈の神，火の神として信仰され，なかには別種の荒神として地神，地主神あるいは山の神として信仰される場合もあるが，鍛冶屋など火を使う職業の徒がこれを信仰することは，火の神としてまつられる荒神の性格からきたものであり，それには修験者や陰陽師などの関与もあった。…

【荼枳尼天】より

…もともと荼枳尼天は狐と関係ないが，荼枳尼天を狐精とする《吒枳尼陀利王経》が偽撰され，近世の荼枳尼天曼荼羅では，狐に乗った天女の姿で描かれるようになった。こうした福神化の過程で，荼枳尼天は同じ福神の宇賀神や弁才天と同一視され，さらには稲荷神と同体とも説かれるようになった。荼枳尼天を祭る豊川稲荷(愛知県豊川市)は有名である。…

※「稲荷神」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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