This morning we cross Kyoto to Fushimi Inari, the most significant of 30,000 shrines dedicated to Inari, a Shinto god worshipped for bountiful harvests. At the main hall, one may present a small offering to the resident deity before heading to the rear of the shrine to find the first of hundreds of vermilion torii gates. We enter the gates and follow the path, which winds up into the hills through a whimsical tunnel of crimson…