Nakasen Road, Kumagaya Station, Yokokuji Temple, Picture of Kosodate-Ykko-Inari Shrine

The Inari Shinto shrine in current Nakacho, Kumagaya City, Saitama is called popular name ""Yakko Inari"", The name was associated with Shinto ritual carried out for the purpose of protecting a child from illness. People who were going to protect one's child cut the hairstyle of the boy like a Yakko (Yakko in Japanese; meaning knight errant) and decided a period, a child work and, after an expiration of a term, shaved the hair of the boy and offered it before the alter. From old days, the people who prayed for the health of the child visited Yakko Inari Shrine. This ukiyoe print draws the figure of people visiting Yakko Inari Shrine with a child in the Edo era. It shows customs of Kumagaya of the Edo period.