Members of the Shinto priesthood try to push down a sacred timber from a wheeled platform at the end of Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild the shrine's main ...
Every 20 years, Ise Jingu — the most revered Shinto shrine in Japan — is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a tradition that has been carried out for more than a millennia. The Ise Jingu is a ...
ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...
ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...
ISE, Japan — Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch. The massive, $390 million demolition and ...
Video. The annual Kanchu Misogi ritual saw around 100 worshippers plunge into icy water at a Tokyo shrine on Sunday.
Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests watch as woodsmen, clad in ceremonial white, fell two ancient cypress trees. Their axes strike from three precise directions, timed with ...
ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...
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