Nezu Shrine

Torii鳥居are often seen in Oinarisanお稲荷様where people celebrate fox caves mainly because, I think, people love and protect Fox cave along with many birds cohabitants of fox cave and woods. Torii 鳥居are designed for giving test places for birds in showing people’s respect for birds as well where they respect fox and the whole nature and hill or woods. So, Torii 鳥居is symbol of peaceful cohabitation between animals normally deemed as enemies each other; Toriis are given and respected by many Japanese people because Torii is always representing peoples’ hope and belief of peaceful cohabitation and prosperity in wise choices and knowledge to give rest and peace of joyful healthy life of birds free from fear from brutality in the woods, near of cave of fox mountain. Torii gives everyone sense of serene because of the core wish of peaceful cohabitation and wise of enemies to avoid selfkill wars.

Nezu shrine was built/located at the hill of Tsutsuji (Rhododendron )and fox cave that had been used to be the 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tunayoshi’s brother Tsunashige’s holiday house. Tunayoshi loved the woods and animals in the nature in avoiding lure of invasion or reason of justification of invasion and war within or outside. Then his brother also loved this hill and built Nezu shrine to celebrate his son Ienobu 徳川家宣 and protect peace and love in cohabitation with the nature and unnecessary ungrounded meaningless power struggle only for political conflicts and shows.