Fushimi Inari-Taisha Consecrated
The mountain was heavy with snow which had been expertly shifted from the path to the shiny new outpost near the top (but not at the top) of the imposing mountain. Sumiko paused before the first prayer gate to cleanse herself before leaving. It had felt remarkably good to stay a few days whilst the shrine was consecrated. As she left two of her senior advisors stepped forward where they had been waiting alongside a larger military escort. "Out from the holy and into the profane?", she queried with little reaction from the professional demeanours before her. She sighed and continued, "any reaction from the populace beyond 'meh' ?" The left advisor an experienced politician whose family was from old earth Tokyo shook his head," the majority of the populace is… placid? About such matters. The colonists which we have recruited have been more enthusiastic but they are all mainly nihon-centric it is to be expected" " How many colonists have we persu...