Fox Shrine: What to Offer Each Season

Village in the Shade: what the Fox Shrine asks for each season, how many offerings appear, the rewards (seasonal scarecrows, Fox's Fried Tofu, Decorative Komagitsune) and where the fox and the shrine are, with maps.

What to Offer Each Season

Complete a season's offerings at the Fox Shrine and you receive Fox's Fried Tofu, which raises your maximum stamina. Each offering you complete also gives you that season's scarecrow.

It starts as early as late on Spring 16 of Year 1: when you wake up at night and go out, follow the fox to the shrine. Check what this season asks for and set the materials aside as you go.

Up to four Fox's Fried Tofu

Completing all of a season's offerings gives you one, and each adds a stamina bar. Once you have four, the shrine stops appearing.

01 / Year 1 plan

How to get all four Fried Tofu in Year 1

  1. SpringGather five each of Butterbur, Honewort and Bracken before Spring 16
  2. SummerPlant Corn, Cucumber and Ginger as summer starts (Corn by the 15th at the latest)
  3. AutumnPlant Taro and Sweet Potato as autumn starts; check whether the Shimeji Grow Kit is unlocked; once the rest is in, let the fox drop the Dahlias
  4. WinterPlant Napa Cabbage as winter starts; keep Crucian Carp and Carp whenever you catch them, and fish for Salmon in winter

02 / Spring

Spring offerings

In Year 1 spring you only need the forageables: five of each, all found in the mountains in spring.

These three don't appear in Year 1 spring. In later springs, vegetables are added once you've finished one season, flowers after two and fish after three.

SpringWhere the fox and the shrine are

Where the fox waits
Outside Tagami General Store
The shrine
Northeast of Kusunoki Clinic, at the end of the path toward the waterfall

03 / Summer

Summer offerings

If you finished spring, Year 1 summer has two offerings: forageables and vegetables. Corn takes 13 days, so plant it by Summer 15.

These two don't appear in Year 1 summer. In later summers, flowers are added once you've finished two seasons and fish after three.

SummerWhere the fox and the shrine are

Where the fox waits
Northwest of Kiki Construction, at the bridge to the mountain trail
The shrine
South across the bridge from the Street Vendor, where a grey round stone sits on the grass

04 / Autumn

Autumn offerings

If you finished spring and summer, Year 1 autumn has three offerings: forageables, vegetables and flowers.

Dahlia seeds can't be bought in Year 1, so let the fox drop them: once everything else is in, it drops one a night, so three nights does it.

Shimeji grows from a Grow Kit, which unlocks after you've entered the Evaluation a few times.

This one doesn't appear in Year 1 autumn. In later autumns, fish is added once you've finished three seasons.

AutumnWhere the fox and the shrine are

Where the fox waits
Outside the water mill
The shrine
Up the path north of the water mill, all the way to the top

05 / Winter

Winter offerings

If you finished the first three seasons, all four offerings appear in Year 1 winter. Winter forageables are just Goji Berries and Winter Raspberry.

WinterWhere the fox and the shrine are

Where the fox waits
On the mountain trail west of the Hunting Lodge
The shrine
North of the Hunting Lodge, near the steps down to the mountain fishing spot

06 / Rules & FAQ

How offerings work

Why are there only one or two offerings?

How many offerings a season shows depends on how many seasons you've already finished. Finishing a season means handing in every offering it showed and getting one Fried Tofu.

  1. None yetForageables only
  2. 1 seasonForageables, vegetables
  3. 2 seasonsForageables, vegetables, flowers
  4. 3 seasonsAll four
  5. 4 seasonsThe shrine stops appearing

For example, in Year 1 spring you haven't finished any season yet, so it's forageables only; finish spring and summer has forageables and vegetables:

The Fox Shrine in Year 1 spring
Year 1 spring: forageables only
The Fox Shrine in Year 1 summer
Year 1 summer: forageables and vegetables

Miss a season and the next one doesn't grow; the usual sticking point is the Dahlia in Year 1 autumn. On the other hand, if you finish all four seasons in Year 1, the shrine is done, and spring's vegetables, flowers and fish never appear at all.

Can I hand things in over several nights?

Yes. Hand in part of it and bring the rest on a later night; what you've already offered is kept.

What if I'm short of something?

When you follow the fox to the shrine, it drops one offering you haven't handed in yet in front of the shrine, one per night. If you're one or two short, a few more nights will do it; that's also how you get the Dahlias in Year 1 autumn. You never know which nights you'll wake up, so setting things aside as you gather them is the safest bet.

Why has the shrine stopped appearing?

The shrine only appears on nights you go out, and which nights you wake up is random. Once you have a season's Fried Tofu, the shrine won't appear again that season. After all four, it stops appearing for good and Konno brings you a pair of Decorative Komagitsune.

The fox isn't where it usually waits?

The game has a few other starting points, and the fox sometimes turns up elsewhere in the village. Wherever it starts, the shrine is in the same spot. The fox starts running when you get close, so stay right behind it, and watch out for anything that gives chase along the way.

07 / Rewards

Rewards

Until you have all four Fried Tofu, the shrine keeps appearing every season, so you can keep earning scarecrows from it. Still, the stamina is worth more, and scarecrows can be found other ways at night, so it's best to finish the offerings early.

Fox's Fried Tofu (one per completed season, four in all)

Something unseen is granting me strength. My maximum stamina is increased.

※ Each one adds a stamina bar: you start with one, and all four take you to five. Stamina is what runs out first in early farming, so it's worth getting the first one in spring.

Seasonal Scarecrows (one per offering)

Place a scarecrow in a field and you can grow that season's crops and flowers around it.

※ It covers a 5×5 area centred on the scarecrow and lasts 28 days.

※ Once placed it can't be picked up again, but you can break it with an Axe, and crops don't wither on the day it breaks. Look at a scarecrow to see how many days it has left.

Decorative Komagitsune (after the fourth Fried Tofu)

A reward for making offerings at the shrine.

※ Night furniture Konno brings you once every shrine offering is done; you get two at once.

※ It works indoors and outdoors. On platforms with trophies, this also unlocks a trophy.

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Data updated: 2026-11-03