Photo: Forest of Foxes

It's hard to describe the effect produced by the foxes of Toyokawa, Japan. Tucked away in a forest behind a temple, hundreds, possibly thousands of individually-carved stone foxes sit huddled together collecting moss. Some are old, some are new, some are watchful and others are kind of scary. In the quiet of the woods, surrounded by them, it's hard not to feel that you're in the presence of living things. Behind the stone, their personalities really do come through.