{"id":2941,"date":"2009-09-13T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2010-10-26T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:45:57","slug":"kitsune-temples-and-kitsune-udon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/kitsune-temples-and-kitsune-udon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitsune Shrines and Kitsune Udon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040750trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040750trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"kitsune fox engraved on shinto shrine tokyo japan \u6c34\u7a32\u8377\u795e\u793e\" title=\"kitsune fox engraved on shinto shrine tokyo japan \u6c34\u7a32\u8377\u795e\u793e\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040750trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040750trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040750trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between our apartment and Waseda University lies \u6c34\u7a32\u8377\u795e\u793e, an Inari Shinto Shrine I like to stroll about. As mentioned <a  href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/fushimi-inari-taisha-\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u5927\u793e\/>previously<\/a>, Inari shrines are famous for their foxes. The above is one of the many foxes (<I>kitsune<\/I>) on the premises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040764trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040764trim-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\u72d0\u3046\u3069\u3093\u3000\u304d\u3064\u306d\u3046\u3069\u3093\u3000kitsune udon\" title=\"\u72d0\u3046\u3069\u3093\u3000\u304d\u3064\u306d\u3046\u3069\u3093\u3000kitsune udon\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040764trim-800x509.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040764trim-250x159.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1040764trim.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In most udon shops one of the kinds of udon you can order is kitsune udon, which looks like the above. Kitsune udon features \u6cb9\u63da\u3052(\u3042\u3076\u3089\u3042\u3052 or sweetened, fried tofu). It&#8217;s one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;fox udon&#8221; isn&#8217;t for you then try &#8220;raccoon dog udon&#8221; (otherwise known as <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/tanuki-\u72f8\/>tanuki<\/a> udon). Instead of \u6cb9\u63da\u3052, you&#8217;ll get \u5929\u304b\u3059 (tempura batter).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why these animal names have been given to the various udon varieties, but it is fun ordering a different animal every time to see the different toppings that arrive with your new selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between our apartment and Waseda University lies \u6c34\u7a32\u8377\u795e\u793e, an Inari Shinto Shrine I like to stroll about. As mentioned previously, Inari shrines are famous for their foxes. The above is one of the many foxes (kitsune) on the premises. In most udon shops one of the kinds of udon you can order is kitsune udon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[102,103,87,304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}