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Rice
The staple grain of much of East Asia. Inari’s stores are rice; that is a Japanese kami’s brief, not a universal harvest goddess.
Shinto
Rice is sacred to Inari.
Rice is Inari’s store. The grain is East Asian agriculture before it is a kami’s brief.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Inari is sacred to Rice.
Inari is a kami of rice and stores. Grain, not a European harvest-goddess template.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Chinese tradition
Rice appears in Chinese tradition.
Rice agriculture is also a Chinese fact. Do not fold it into Inari or into a generic “Asian harvest.”
from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912
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