Kyoto Fushimi Inari Taisha legend

According to legend, long time ago a rich man named Hatano Irogu was practicing archery aiming at targets made of rice cakes (mochi). One day, one of the rice cakes transformed into a white crane, flying away. He followed the crane and, after landing on a field, the crane transformed again in a rice plant. After that, the surrounding rice fields produced rich harvests.

Hatano Irogu erected on that place a shrine dedicated to the kami of rice and agriculture, Inari. That shrine is the today's renowned Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto...