Fushimi Inari-taisha is the main
Shinto shrine of the Japanese deity
Inari Ōkami, located in
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. It sits at the base of a mountain, also named Inari, located 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level. The site's earliest structures were built in 711 on the Inariyama hill in southwestern Kyoto, but the shrine was re-located in 816 on the request of the monk
Kūkai. It gained imperial patronage during the early
Heian period and the main shrine structure was built in 1499. This photograph shows a
torii path at Fushimi Inari-taisha with a hanging lantern. Each of the shrine's roughly 10,000
torii (gates) was donated by a Japanese business, and approximately 800 of these are set up in rows, as depicted here, that give the impression of entering a tunnel.
Photograph credit: Basile Morin