Note 72 — COURT LADIES OF OLD JAPAN (continued 2)
Annie Shepley Omori translation
In those days it was the custom for the person who wished to be favoured by the Inari god to crown his head with a twig of cedar. The Inari god was then the god of the rice-plant. He is now confused with the fox-god whose little shrines, flanked by small stone foxes, are seen everywhere.