Kanjō

[1] The concept then evolved further to mean the act (and the actual words) of asking buddhas or bodhisattvas to descend to the altar during a Buddhist service.

[1] In Japan, the word gradually assumed the present meaning of enshrinement of a buddha or kami in a building for the first time.

The transfer does not necessarily take place from a shrine to another: the new location can be a privately owned object or a kamidana ("god-shelf", or altar) within an individual house.

[3] Some years later, he returned to Kyoto, and Aomori's people asked him to leave the kami behind, which he did in what would become Takekoma Inari.

At Toyokawa Inari, the worshiper can buy a statue and then participate in the ceremony, called kaigen, to animate it.