Fox Wan/Origin

Origin
Fox Wan is based off of an Inari, a messenger of God that usually protects the entrance of a shrine similar to a Komainu. They look like white foxes with red paint on it's face. There are about 30 thousand Inari shrines in Japan, and the entrance of each is guarded by a pair of fox statues. Often one, and sometimes both, has a sūtra roll, a key or a jewel in its mouth. The statues do not stand for the malice the animals are proverbial for, but for the magic powers they are believed in this case to possess.