Jennifer What a lovely photo! I wonder what led to foxes as the choice originally. They're elegant and cunning, so maybe that's part of it.
Richard Morwood
This looks great, now I'm wishing Fushimi Inari was included in my trip to Japan. The Depth of Field is wonderful, somehow makes it feel like there are more foxes in the frame than there really is, like it's a large crowd (from your description sounds like there were many more too)
I have heard composition referred to as "the art of exclusion" and wonder how this would look with a little of the back wall taken out - either by moving closer, lower, or cropping just a touch off the top. With no back wall, viewers wouldn't know that was the end of the fox crowd. But only the back wall, the side walls are great just as they are.
Also the front row of foxes feels like it is missing a specific fox subject - though this may have been your goal as they are all the subject. The standing-holding-lantern fox is very close to being on the rule-of-thirds lower right. If you were slightly more to the right then it's head would block out the grey step just to his heads left
Satoshi T Nice TONS of foxes! I like this depth of field! A lot of foxes in a Inari my neighborhood too "I put a fox figure. me too, me too..." ^.^