Somewhere online I found the specific name for the white, male servant foxes of Inari but I couldn't find it again.

Things I learned doing a painting of Sweets and his parents:
Dad is scarred-up from various message-sending/guardianing things he did for the god of rice, Inari. (I already had learned that, because of the kind of fox he is, he is white and inherently has the ability to turn human.)

Dad determined that the family must have a family photograph made. So Sweets threw a kimono on over his suit and tie, totally agreed not to flame-on during the proceedings, and they invited the photographer to their house. As soon as Dad was faced with an actual camera, however, he fled, hiding under furniture, and after the first three tries, Lance's smile faded. Mom, meanwhile, was getting anxious to complete cooking her dumplings involving some kind of tofu, and they were getting ruined... On the fifth try, Lance had to mollify Mom with scritches because she was livid that she had to throw her tofu to the chickens; it was wasted. And he hid Dad on his neck so Dad could hide from the camera and still be in the photograph. He had lost his smile altogether and was frowning, he got on fire a little bit in the hair, but his face still showed, unskeletonized. Luckily, after that, they went out to a nice inn with nice tofu.