Toyokawa Inari

Enpuku-zan Toyokawa-kaku Myōgon-ji
(Toyokawa Inari)
円福山 豊川閣 妙厳寺
(豊川稲荷)
Toyokawa Inari's main hall (honden)
Religion
AffiliationBuddhism
SectSōtō
DeitySenju Kannon (honzon)
Toyokawa Dakini Shinten
Location
Location1 Toyokawa-chō, Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture
CountryJapan
Toyokawa Inari is located in Aichi Prefecture
Toyokawa Inari
Shown within Aichi Prefecture
Geographic coordinates34°49′28.26″N 137°23′31.24″E / 34.8245167°N 137.3920111°E / 34.8245167; 137.3920111
Architecture
FounderTōkai Gieki
Completed1441
Website
Official website

Myōgon-ji (妙厳寺), also known as Toyokawa Inari (shinjitai: 豊川稲荷; kyūjitai: 豐川稲荷), is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in the city of Toyokawa in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Although the temple's main image is that of the thousand-armed form of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Senju Kannon), it is more well-known for its guardian deity Toyokawa Dakini Shinten, a syncretic goddess who assumed characteristics of Inari, the Shinto kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, industry and worldly success. Despite the presence of a torii gate at the entrance (a relic of the amalgamation of Buddhism and native beliefs before the early modern period), the institution is a Buddhist temple and has no overt association with the Shinto religion.