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For example, there stands in a very obscure street of Matsue one of those streets no stranger is likely to enter unless he loses his way a temple called Jigyoba-no-Inari, and also Kodomo-no-Inari, or 'the Children's Inari. It is very small, but very famous; and it has been recently presented with a pair of new stone foxes, very large, which have gilded teeth and a peculiarly playful expression of countenance.
These sit one on each side of the gate: the Male grinning with open jaws, the Female demure, with mouth closed. The grated doors of the shrine of Jigyoba-no-Inari, like those of the shrine of Yaegaki, are white with the multitude of little papers tied to them, which papers signify prayers. But the prayers are special and curious.
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